SportPack arch mounting studs

[Red Riley]

Does anyone happen to have any spares laying around that you can part with? I've got one that's cross threaded and I can't fix it. Actually, I haven't gotten the last arch off yet, so I'm assuming I only need one. I for sure don't need a whole set, or want to deal with the transatlantic tariff BS.
If you could take a look in your parts bin or scrounge around in the bottom of your tool bag, that would be super helpful.
Thanks.

[Dan Moffet]

I've never sen the fixings for a Sportspack arch but it appears to me that the stud in the first picture is supposed to be permanently (?) set into the hole in the second image.

Would it be feasible to find  matching-sized bolt and epoxy or JB Weld it into the hole, grinding down the head and/or routing out the hole to fit?

[Red Riley]

I'm sure that could be done, but I don't think it would have enough grip to stay put. The way these are designed, the screw threads turn into the arch as the nut is tightened down on the bolt threads. Just like double ended hanger bolts used on table legs. I don't think they were meant to be permanently glued in. The ones on mine are all like this and can be removed. I think there were more than one type of mounting studs used over the years, but these ones seem well designed for this purpose. I have managed to grind the cross threaded end off of the worst one, and then moved it to a position where it had just enough length left to engage the remaining threads through the fender.  I also figured out what caused the cross threading in the first place. Whoever put them on last jammed on a couple of 10-32 nuts instead of the correct M5-.8 ones. That will work for about the first two or three threads, then you're cross threading.