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Hi,

I always had problem fitting my roll-bar, due to the distortion of the main hood after having fully welded the plates, cross bar and rear stays (I made a thread about that a long time ago).

It is always very hard to fit, and the bolts never want to go straight into the welded nuts. Lately, as I have used stainless steel bolts, some of the bolts that I forced a bit too much in the welded nuts have damaged their threads. Not completely, but I can see some of the threads have suffered, and now, it is even harder to fit the bolts correctly.

As I secure the bolts with nylock nuts below the welded nuts anyway (to stop the bolts to move because of vibrations), I was thinking about drilling the thread of the welded nuts to the same OD as the bolts (10mm in my case), to be able to fit the bolts easily. So they will be secured to the chassis only with the nylock nuts.

Do you think this would be a problem? I'm not talking about approval by our IVA (SFRO) or MOT, as I doubt they will check so far, but my concern is more if it will be OK to hold the roll-bar and keep it in place solidly? What could be the consequences of this set-up, and when it comes to solidity, what would be the difference with just the welded nuts as the book's design?

Thank you.