Goodbye console nuts

[Zymurgy]

Since day 1 I have been trying to get my console lid to stay on. The spring is so strong the crappy nuts never hold on to the studs.

I finally came to a revelation to thread the studs with a 8-32 die and then use a lock nut. For the first time ever the console lid fits nice and tight.

This has drove me nuts for 3 1/2 years. Goodbye console nuts.

 

[300rag]

 

[detmatt]

Glad you got it figured out before the museum show!

 

[68Nwprt]

Good job. You said these nuts are driving me nuts. That,s funny.

 

[luigi164]

3 1/2 years ?? That's a long time of exasperation about some nuts
If something was bothering about my car I think I couldn't hold it thát long...
Good solution thoug..

 

[detmatt]

Have you seen what he's done to this car in three years???

 

[tallhair]

Nice on Zy ... Well done

 

[Zymurgy]

I thought I had it fixed 3 or 4 times. I bought new nuts and a new spring, but always back to square one. I am also going to thread my badges and trunk trim too. My newly re-chromed Chrysler badge studs have too much chrome build up, so the original speed nuts won't fit.

 

[65 500]

Customizer...

 

[LocuMob]

Nice work Zymurgy.

 

[Zymurgy]

Customizer...

I could cut the base of the console nut and then glue them on to the lock nuts.

 

[1978 NYB]

Nice work Mike!

 

[live4theking]

nice...

 

[polara71]

Look how shiny that hinge is..........

 

[65sporty]

Great solution

 

[vdk2010]

You could use encapsulated nuts to reproduce the original look, like these:

 

[70GTbasketcase]

Since day 1 I have been trying to get my console lid to stay on. The spring is so strong the crappy nuts never hold on to the studs.

I finally came to a revelation to thread the studs with a 8-32 die and then use a lock nut. For the first time ever the console lid fits nice and tight.

This has drove me nuts for 3 1/2 years. Goodbye console nuts.
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Well ther ya go. I didn't think of that. My console on the sport fury was stripped out, so the acorns just skipped off the threads as soon as I tried to snug them down. I re threaded the studs like you did but the hex nuts just didnt look right. I wanted to keep the "original" look so what i did was I cut the bottoms out of the acorns and epoxied in the hex nuts. So basically i "hid" the hex nuts inside the acorns so the set up would look like nothing was done to change it. It works just fine but it probably would have been easier to go with the lock nuts. Great fix!

 

[70GTbasketcase]

You could use encapsulated nuts to reproduce the original look, like these:

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Ha! I just posted something like that.

 

[Big_John]

Every time I see the title to this thread I think of the old 7up commercial.

 

[fury fan]

I thought I had it fixed 3 or 4 times. I bought new nuts and a new spring, but always back to square one. I am also going to thread my badges and trunk trim too. My newly re-chromed Chrysler badge studs have too much chrome build up, so the original speed nuts won't fit.

Use some caution there, the potmetal of an emblem stud might be more likely to twist out vs the sheetmetal stud/clip used in a console, esp if there's hard chrome on there!