UKTJ
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Brilliant, thanks. No issue with buying Currie ones, but it is the usual shipping to the UK issue.
A lesson learned—keep it light and nimble!
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JKS used to make a lot of stuff for Currie. Currie has a bunch of stuff JKS uses. It is not coincidental they have identical mini skids.
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I try to avoid wet stuff whenever possible. However, where I am it goes from dry to this in a matter of minutes!
Pretty sure I have Currie bracket (CE-9121N) that has never been installed if want to save a few $. Shoot me PM if want and we can work something out.
OP
Got a new appreciation for what @mrblaine does. I spent three hours this evening grinding on the bumper and hardcore ends, to make everything fit nicely. The real challenge was to make the Savvy front bumper, SwayLoc, and Hardcore bumper ends play nicely together. Thanks to Blaine, I installed 5/16 TIME-SERTS and now everything fits perfectly. I'm guessing very few have done this, and it's only possible because of his genius.
Paint is drying now, but pictures will come tomorrow! Thanks @mrblaine !
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01H0STYME/?tag=wranglerorg-20
Paint is drying now, but pictures will come tomorrow! Thanks @mrblaine !
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01H0STYME/?tag=wranglerorg-20
Thanks but being mechanically minded doesn't make me a genius, just creative and mechanically minded. Did you run them in from the inside and grind them off flush to the outside?
OP
I did. Then ran the philips bolt in and ground that flush. It is a very clean and functional install. Not sure if I needed it, but I used Red loctite with the TIME-SERTS in the Savvy bumper.
The red doesn't hurt but the reversed direction solves the screwing out with the bolt problem which I have dealt with before on a set of beadlocks.
OP
I'm actually super impressed with how strong it is. Made the fit and finish look professional. Thanks again!
Rich
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Helicoils are wound wire inserts that work very well to put threads in blind holes, not as well in through holes because a burr or nick on the fastener can snag them and thread them out. They are hard to lock into through holes because thread locker just wicks through the threads.
There are alternates to that which use different methods to lock them in the threads so they are difficult or impossible to screw out in a through hole. Some like the EZ-Lok use thread locker to lock them in.
Time-serts have an expanded top thread which makes a shoulder that can't be screwed through the hole. The top edge of the hole is chamfered so they can sit flush where that matters.
There is also the key locking inserts. They have grooves through the threads on 4 sides that a little key sits in. After the insert is installed, the keys get tapped down to lock the insert in place. Spiraloc, Recoil, Keensert, and Loksert are some of that style.
After those there are the big selection of rivnut and nutserts for threads in thin materials.
OP
I hadn't heard of them before, but they're a very good solution for situations where you can't put a nut, due to depth limitations. Or, you can't use a nutsert, because the splined barrel part is to long.
I wish they had put STI on the tap. Easier for folks to not confuse them.
https://www.travers.com/sti-taps/c/297765/
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I didn't buy the kit and definitely got confused. I did figure it out though. The only thing I wished I would have done differently is, I should have done both of the outside holes. I only did the bottom one, because that was the only interference place. It would have looked cleaner, if I did both.
I just use a regular nut of the right size to make sure I have the right tap.