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Not sure if this is the right section of the forum for this, but I will give it a try…
Based of a couple of hours of frustration today, I was wondering if any of you have tips for reinstalling fasteners that you can only feel. I spent about 2 hours trying to get a bolt aligned for a thermostat housing. Needed 2 hands, no place to put an inspection mirror and not a lot of light. Hopefully the neighbor kids didn’t learn any new words. :ohmy:
I’m thinking if I ever do this again, since I now know the size and thread pitch for the bolt, I would get a stud and put that in right after I take the bolt out so I have something to align on. However, I have a feeling the pros out there may have a better solution, especially if the bolt size is unknown.
thanks!
BTW, I would like to thank the engineers at Nissan for putting a thermostat in a place where I swear it would be easier to pull the engine to change it, and for putting it on the lower radiator hose so you need to drain the cooling system. :huh: As an engineer myself, I hope my products are much easier to service.
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This was more of a general technique question, but here are the details…
2003 Nissan Frontier 2.4 KA24DE 110000 miles
Sometimes I’ll use a tiny dab of super glue on my middle or index finger to stick the fastener to just to get the fastener in the hole, or just started. Pull your finger off of the fastener carefully with two other fingers holding the fastener and spin it on.
If you can work a bunch of extensions down into a hole, where a fastener is down inside a recess, you can tear a small corner of a paper towel, cover the head of the fastener and stick the paper/fastener into the socket and lower it down into a recess, the paper keeping the fastener inside the socket while you fish it down into its location.
Thats about the only tips I can think of now.
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