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Old 03-11-2009, 11:19 PM
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yea man i agree, you probably wont have a problem with it, but if it where me i would get pissed off and bring it back, make them finish it, one time i had my tracker at tires plus for brakes and those bastards didnt put in one bolt on teh passanger side caliper because teh threads where messed up and they didnt tell me about it...luckily nothign ever happened but when i noticed it i was pissed beyond belief, it could have killed me i have never gone back to that place and never will
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it not that hard of a fix
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So basicly you took it to the shop to drill out the bolt but they just put the other bolts in? thats not 65 bucks worth of work in my book. I think it will be fine i run 3 bolts on one side of my hitch simply cause i cant get it to line up.
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yeah...on both sides there should be four bolts...each side only has three...the right side due to the drilled out bolt...and the left side i dont know why they didnt put that last bolt in...

i will try and drill that bolt out and use an easy out...but that was the whole point of me getting my hitch installed by them...and in order for me to do the left side i have to pull the plate, and bolt down through the frame which is impossible without disassembling the hitch...
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I think the bolts are held in with the nut strip on the back side of the unibody rail
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you can get new nut strips from the dealer still. Well, last year i was able to. Decently cheap if i remember right. Less than $65 for both for sure
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yeah but then you have to have them welded in right?
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