Skid Plates

[Raymondo]

Recently fitted a skid plate i bought from limebug to my 67 beetle.

I have had to use the original bolts as the ones supplied are too long.

I did contact them to ask about the problem. They said they would look into it but i haven't heard anything since i got in contact a couple of months ago.

They did say i could either pack out the bolts supplied with washers which is not ideal or i could use the originals.

I'm wondering if the original bolts will be safe to drive around on with the plate fitted? or if there are slightly longer than standard bolts available.

Cheers

[TDCTDI]

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Do y'all not have hardware stores with nut & bolt selections?
If what you've got ain't workin & your supplier ain't making good on it, you don't have much choice other than to do it yourself.
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Put a nut on the long bolt & grind it down shorter with a 4.5" angle grinder. Taper the end a little with your 1/8" thick 4.5" wide grinding/cutting disc. The nut should come off pretty easily to clean up the thread. I buy just what I want new from Eugene Fastener that has every conceivable bolt/nut in stock or they will order them for you out of their Dorman etc catalogs! Our local Ace Hardware is well stocked too!
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[ZENVWDRIVER]

I have found that suppliers do not back some of their own products when they are not a standard application... for me, it was installing an engine mount on a bay-bus... standard bay bus engines had threaded holes in them to mount the engine and for the replacement type one engine, those threaded holes were not there and one had to use an adapter... incorrect bolts and no instructions came with the package.
Never encountered your problem, but it sounds similar to me.
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[Chad1376]

I had to look up the skid plate to understand the issue - it uses the lower front beam bolts.

Yes, they make longer beam bolts, for use with caster shims. My guess is they supplied these longer bolts in anticipation that many buyers also run caster shims.

The only way to know for sure if the stock length will work is to measure the thread engagement. You'll want the bolt threaded in at least the same distance as the bolt diameter (1.5x would be better.)

Barring that, use washers, or cut the longer bolts down to fit.
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[hitest]

You might just replace a stock bolt with a new long one and see if it bottoms out.

It might not and there you have your solution.
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