Tonight I decided to change gears. This is a typical rear body mount caged nut bracket from an M1009
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It is used to hold the rear body mount in place and secure the caged nuts to attach the rear outer bumper brackets. The brackets were missing on this vehicle.
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After giving this much thought I decided to remove the center bumper brackets as I was going to have to anyway and use a sawzall to get in there and cut the part of the brackets with the caged nuts and the broken 7/16” bolt. I allowed an hour to do this job and I was 99% on time after getting the tools put away and scrapping all the fasteners.
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As you can see in the image above there is an issue with the drawbar and Pintle hook mounting.