I recieved my hatch pins from sharky today, are these as easy as unscrewing the top retaining nut and unscrewing the pins ??

 

If you're lucky, yes. Mine, no. They were so rusted in that I had to break them out and replace the top nut/rubber mount. Good luck.

 

Just replaced my originals with the new stainless pins. The originals would not budge from the rubber encased nuts, no matter how many times I soaked them with penetrant. I bought new nuts from the dealer. (These are encased in rubber and are easily removed from the mounts once you remove the mounts using a 6mm tripple square bit. I bought a Lisle 60750 four piece set at Pep Boys for $11.) The new pins were very difficult to screw into the new nuts, though the regular (lock) nuts on the pins screwed on easily. I think the rubber encased nuts have a paricularly tight thread (even though the threads were not coated in rubber. I worked-in the threads a bit using a standard 8mm - 1.25 bolt, which screwed in a bit easier than the stainless pins. Then I coated the threads with anti-seize before screwing in the pins. Still hard to turn, but it got the job done. The new pins are adjustable as they should be.

 

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Exact same thing to a T.

 

Thanks guys I will give it a try.

 

As you all may know, the stainless pieces will be a tighter fit due to the tolerances at play, but they will fit.

When I put my valve cover bolts in from sharky, I thought it was going to strip the holes out the tolerances were so tight. You can't wiggle the bolts in the holes, where as the factory ones can wiggle! I haven't bought the hatch pins yet, but I do have a hood pin. Great products!