Find a good place to buy hardware (check in your local yellow pages under
"Fasteners" - I seem to recall, in the bay area there's a great place in
Concord). Buy an assortment of nuts, bolts, screws and washers in the
appropriate sizes. Be prepared to go back often for wierd stuff, but don't
skimp - buy fifty or so of each of the common sizes right off the bat.
Replace every piece of rusted hardware you ever take off the car with a
shiny new nur or bolt.
Two years from now, you will have spent less than fifty bucks on new
hardware and you'll congratulate yourself for your good sense every time
you work on the car.
- James Einolf
'74 MGB (with a lot of new hardware, and still a long way from done).
>Greetings knowledgeable Listers:
>
>I have been working on my MG alot lately, and have noticed that every bolt
>that I have taken off and replaced is now rusting. Is this something that
>is unavoidable, or should I be treating the bolts or something? It is
>particularly bad on my Brake Master Cylinder tubing connections.
>
>Thanks for your advice!
>
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> Berrie C. Watson
> Assistant in Campus Computing
> USF St. Petersburg Campus
> bwatson@bayflash.stpt.usf.edu
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