In the power industry, we are skeptical of any steel supplied by China,
especially fasteners. Too much shoddy manufacture.
Although it can't hurt to replace fasteners if one is certain he/she is
getting quality parts, unless there is a reason to think the bolts are bad,
I'd re-use them. Head bolts on a 2000? No, I'd replace them, but most
other fasteners on the car should be all right.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby B" <RacerY@comcast.net>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Datsun-roadsters Digest, Vol 3, Issue 122
>" I highly recommend against buying bolts from Home Depot
> and most local hardware stores. There is a tremendous amount of
> counterfeit
> gr.8 fasteners in the market place."
>
> Amen. And that's increasingly true of metric fasteners, too.
>
> The worst part, anymore, is that 'Made in China' bolts can be perfectly
> fine-
> or they can be dimensionally wrong, metallurgically flawed, and dangerous.
> And there's no easy way to tell. We tested some stuff to destruction
> recently, and some of the uglier parts from questionable sources
> tested the best.
> And some nice- looking pieces from reputable vendors were marginal at
> best.
>
> Frankly, unless there's something wrong with the fasteners that were
> holding
> your car together, I'd re- use them. They're not going to fail of old
> age...
>
> Toby
> Seattle.
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