Keith Seymore
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- First Name
- Keith Seymore
- Truck Year
- 1987
- Truck Model
- R10
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- 4.3L
This is correct.Those are supposed to be welded on as far as I know. You didn't cut the weld because it looks like rust took care of that part for you. Not like it's a heavy weld, they're basically just tacked in. A little bit of rust will easily make that weld disappear, or at least compromise it enough to crack easily when just a little bit of torque is applied. The rust that forms in the threads is usually stronger than that little tack so the whole thing just snaps off and spins when you try to loosen it. That's not just a squarebody thing, that's uses on everything from fenders on our trucks to the subframes of little foreign economy cars and everything inbetween.
My guys installed about 1.8 million fenders, with about 7 of those in the nose of each fender.
Cross threaded and broke off a bunch of 'em too, right on the assembly line.
K
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