selftaut said:
Ok...now, if you look at the remaining bolt sticking out of the bottom of the rails, you'll probably see that the heads of the bolts were drilled out, causing the heads to pop off...so you can remove the rails...lol...normal!
Who was it that wanted to argue with me about how "Great" the GC3's, 4's, and 5's had the best rail bolt systems in the world...LMAO...anyway, back to the subject.
The first thing you're going to have to do is remove the rail cloth from each rail that has a screwed up bolt.
Then...you're going to have to remove the cushion rubber...hate to say it, but it's easier to work on the rail bolt floating nuts with the cushion rubber out of the way...but be very careful removing it...some of it's glued on so tight that it'll want to rip the rail rubber trying to pull off. You could try to peel it back from the bottom of the rail to give you some room to get to the floating nut...but, you're the one doing it.
Now, there's one of two ways to try and fix the problem of the bolt being screwed up...
1: you can try and grip the floating nut with some thin point vise grips to stop it from turning, then use another pair of vice grips to turn the bolt and try and back it out of the nut...but if that don't work...
2: then you're going to have to hacksaw cut off the bolt flush with the bottom of the rail, then starting with a 1/8" drill bit, drill the center of the bolt out until you've drilled it all the way through, then step up in size to a 7/16" drill bit, using the pilot hole from the 1/8th inch bit as a guide...finish drilling out the remaining shank of the bolt until you've removed enough of the bolt to slide out the floating nut plate.
Then replace the nut plate, secure it from turning, replace the rubber...and you're good to go...
Have fun...LOL
Glen
