Nut

Remember? The forward captive nut of the sliding door's catch was gone. It was attached using a household drywall anchor. Sweet. Here's what the hole with no captive nut looks like. It did get egged out a bit from the loose anchor but this will not affect anything once we install a replacement captive nut.

Here is what it should look like. We will use this door for the donor nut. Don't worry, the door is trashed anyway.

Here it is cut and peeled back. There's our hidden treasure! :-) Why cut this out/remove the nut instead of just using a regular nut? Well, this is much more fun! And, since it IS an actual nut designed to be a captive nut, it should hold better.

Here is the piece cut out with nut removed. The nut is/was attached via 4 brazings- just chiseled each one steadily to get the nut off in good shape. I'm still wondering how the other one came off. Someone had to bang on it, or the brazings just released, weird.

How will we attach the nut? Can't really get to the back, don't want to cut any door. Let's use good ol' cold-weld. Yup- JB Weld to the rescue! :-) Sanded down the attachment side of the nut AND the area on the door where it is to be attached to.

Ready to schtick...

Set it in place and tighten its screw into it to hold it on while the cold-weld dries. Greased the threads of the screw to help assure they don't stick in case any weld got squeezed into the threads.  After drying, screw removed, and- voila- captive nut.

Also done today but not pictured... fuel tank cleaned/prepared for installation and inside of engine bay painting completed.