Do door hinge plates have threadlocker applied from the factory?

[Goatman]

Can I expect to have a similar experience when I remove the winshield hinge bolts? If they shear the heads off to be able to hand loosen them?(hopefully)
No exterior rust. Paint still seals the heads to the hinge.

 

[mrblaine]

Can I expect to have a similar experience when I remove the winshield hinge bolts? If they shear the heads off to be able to hand loosen them?(hopefully)
No exterior rust. Paint still seals the heads to the hinge.

Depends on too many variables. That and the windshield hinges have a floating nut plate that is very tenderly retained by two small sheet metal fingers that fold over it. If you get the bolt part ways out and push too hard on it, that can dislodge the plate from behind the fingers and really complicate your life. You will have to remove the windshield frame, lay it flat, and cut a hole in the pillar on the inside to get the plate back where it goes and fold the fingers back down.

 

[Goatman]

Depends on too many variables. That and the windshield hinges have a floating nut plate that is very tenderly retained by two small sheet metal fingers that fold over it. If you get the bolt part ways out and push too hard on it, that can dislodge the plate from behind the fingers and really complicate your life. You will have to remove the windshield frame, lay it flat, and cut a hole in the pillar on the inside to get the plate back where it goes and fold the fingers back down.

Thank you very much for that. This is why this is the absolute best forum to be on. I would have surely F'ed them up pushing into the heads.