If you are always working on your rig then sooner or later you will run into a nut in the frame that gets stripped or the tack weld gives way and the nut falls into the frame.


I have pulled off my front bumper more times than I can remember. Swapping winches, making alterations to the front bumper and then adding more to it. With each off/on cycle the bolts and nuts that hold your front bumper on take a beating.


Finally one of the nuts inside the frame that I could not get at fell off. It was the second nut in, on the right side of the frame.

Writeup/pics: http://www.savagesun4x4.com/enter/how_to_stuff/stripped_threadmissing_nut_.html