I hate rusty bolts...

[02RangerXLT]

I'm trying to take my running boards off, and the bolts on the back that bolt to the cab don't seem to want to frickin turn. I guess thats what 8 years of rust does... whats everybody using as far as WD-40 type spray, to get rusty bolts to move?

I drowned them in WD-40, still wouldn't budge... tried doing it with an impact gun, but that just sent dirt flying everywhere and I couldn't see.

 

[heptofite]

pb-blaster.

 

[Hopman]

pb-blaster.

+1000 on that! The best damn friggen penetrating oil on the planet, if not the galaxy!

If PB don't work, there's only one tool that'll get the bolts out: the "hot wrench."

Why don't we have a PB Blaster can in the smileys?

 

[xkotyx]

i heat them with a torch for a while and smack em with a hammer a couple times while theyre hot. then ill get the impact on it.
usually works for me.
oh yeah and pb!

 

[ASMODEAN]

If you are gonna use the running boards again PB 'em. If not get a cut off wheel and get after it!

 

[02RangerXLT]

Yeah, thanks! The only problem with these is that these are the retarded bolts that have a nut or something like that welded on the inside...

 

[02RangerXLT]

If you are gonna use the running boards again PB 'em. If not get a cut off wheel and get after it!

No, I aint going to. I'm taking them off cause they're frickin rusted so bad... but I still want the ability to use them...

 

[ragajungle]

PHP

PB Blaster

Heat

Prayer

I live in the rustbelt -tha thick of it- Buy PB Blaster by the gallon

 

[02RangerXLT]

Haha 10-4. What should I use to protect the bottom of the cab once I take them off? Bedliner isn't an option...

 

[Ranger Dave (B25)]

Go to a window-tint place and tell them you want them to put clear ScotchCal on it. It's a thick yet flexible polyester film that automakers use as rock-guard on cab corners and the leading edges of rear wheel openings. You can get it applied to hoods and the leading edge of the roof above the windshield as well, to guard against sand/stone chips.

Any GOOD window-tint place will know about it and have it.

 

[02RangerXLT]

Any idea on cost? I won't do the actual rockers, but I want to do the bottom of the cab below the rockers...

 

[superds]

Also try the 50/50 mix of acetone and ATF as a penetrant. I've tried it, it seems to work ok. Otherwise, I also use PB blaster.

 

[Ranger Dave (B25)]

Any idea on cost? I won't do the actual rockers, but I want to do the bottom of the cab below the rockers...

No idea, you'd have to talk to them. But I do know the stuff works. Our Asst VP has it on her A4 and it's damn near invisible.

 

[necessaryevil]

warm the bolt and nut up with a little torch, and the rub a some candle wax on the warm threads of the bolt. i know it dosent sound right, but its an old farmers trick that my father showed me.

 

[02RangerXLT]

Oiy! That was a bear to get those bolts off... I finally got them removed after using a breaker bar and quite a bit of WD-40... Heads breaking off two of the bolts also helped, haha.

Thanks!