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RE: replacing diff & what else?

To: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>,
Subject: RE: replacing diff & what else?
From: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <doug@dougbraun.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:21:52 -0400
I don't think you should overdo it when replacing nuts and bolts.  These days 
those
parts seem to be more and more cheaply made in the Far East somewhere.

Unless you have a ready source of high-quality fasteners, sooner or later you
might replace a old but sound part with a shiny but defective one.

Besides, what if your employer or spouse treated you the same way?  :-)

Of course there are certain jobs (like replacing front suspension bushes)
where using a new fastener is standard procedure...

Doug Braun
'72 Spit


At 09:14 AM 6/26/02 +0100, Richard Gosling wrote:
>Kim,
>
>As a general principle, I always replace all nuts, bolts, bushes and seals
>with new whenever I replace any part on my car.  At the very least you are
>replacing a potentially worn, fatigued, and rusty nut/bolt with a shiny new
>one, at worst you may damage the threads or have to cut the old bolt out if
>it is seized or badly rusty, or you may damamge the thread, so then they
>would have to be replaced with new.  Also they do up much easier when they
>are new!  This not only makes assembly easier, but is important for
>achieving the correct torque setting when tightening.

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