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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