After working with too many chewed up Phillips drive screws on the rear
brakes and axles by DPOs, I've converted both my street car and the vintage
race car to allen head screws. As long as the screws don't rust, they
should be easy to remove. My experience has been that the POs never touched
them regularly, so they were really rusted in and then, when they needed to
remove them for a brake job or to replace the axles, they chewed them up
trying to break the rust bond. In either case (axle or brake drum) it's
the wheel nuts that really hold the rear end together, not the little screws.
At 10:39 AM 04/18/2000 -0700, HFC wrote:
>....picky, picky, picky!
>
>Actually, looking thru a number of manuals, most of which don't call the screw
>by type, I find no mention of Posidrive being used. In one {Austin-Healey
>Sprite. Issue 3 21424, pg. H.4} they show a slotted head screw...go figure.
>
>Using the Posidrive makes perfect sense; better grip if I recall correctly,
>less
>likely to strip the head slots.
>
>Good call Daniel1312!
>
>WFO Herb
>Keep the sticky side down!
>
>Daniel1312@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Sorry to picky but since I've learnt the difference between posidrive and
>> phillips I like to draw attention to the difference - I think the screws are
>> Posidrive (at least on my car).
>>
>> Daniel1312
>>
>> In a message dated 17/04/00 19:22:01 GMT Daylight Time, froggi@cdsnet.net
>> writes:
>>
>> << remove two countersunk phillips head screws >>
Regards,
Bob Spruck
Sharpsburg, GA
' 67 Midget Vintage Racer
' '72 Midget Weekend Car
4 parts cars in the woods
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