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jlaird

jlaird

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How many nuts, bolts, and washers are on a Bugeye.


Three double handfulls. Yep that is the answer, have not done a count as yet but on the way to cleaning with wire wheel, degreasing and cad plateing em all. Think it just might take more than a day or so. Hehe. Not the washers or lock washers of course they will be new.
 
any particular reason to go through all that work to reuse them? I'd be inclined to hit up my local nuts & bolts shop and get all new grade 5/8 hardware. Can't have too good of fastners IMO....
 
Well I guess part of the reason is there are so many different types and I have now clue what they are, but I know where they go.

I have asked here before what sizes are needed and in what sizes so I could buy by the box on line buy it seems that no one has really made a study of this area. So I am plateing the ones that were removed.
 
Does your local home depot have one of those thread testers? It would take a long time, but you could go through each one (or one example of a group which you can visually tell are the same). Just plate the new ones then.

Ben
 
The issue is that these cars have a lot of fasteners that are in 1/4" and 3/4" length increments which is not a common stock item in US hardware stores. If you special order them that is fine, but I rarely have that much forethought.
 
Here's the way to do it when you have time, and I seem to.

Buy new washers, lockwashers, clamps, and other fastners.
Send an example of each type of bolt and washer to our bolt and nut guy here on the site and tell him a box of each please. Oh yea send clean ones, hehe. (British Tools and Fastners) /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif

Plate your own bolts and the other odds and ends, washer motor cover, brake and clutch push rods, etc.
 
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