Curtis,
Stainless steel fasteners are not the strongest and are not recommended
for critical applications. I believe that they actually have less
tensile and shear strength than Grade 5, and I am positive that they are
weaker than Grade 8. The stainless is harder than grade 5 or 8, but
also more fragile.
If you want the strongest bolts available, you need to find some
aircraft-grade bolts (there is a technical term for these but I can't
think of it off the top of my head). Aircraft Spruce & Specialty
(aricraft-spruce.com)(?) has a large selection of whatever they are
called.
There is a terrific book called Nuts, Bolts & Specialty Fasteners (or
something close) written by a race engineer whose name escapes me. If
you can find it through Amazon, etc., it will be of great help.
Jeff Thorpe
'60 Bugeye
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From: Curtis Carlson
To: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Sway bar mounting bolts
Date: Thursday, September 24, 1998 12:48PM
Hi there listers:
I received my new sway bar in the mail yesterday but it didn't contain
the bolts which mount the bar to the frame via the squarish buffer
brackets.
Does anyone know the bolt size for these 4 bolts? I suspect they are
9/16" fine or something close, but haven't had any luck determining the
exact bolt size.
Also, for mounting the brackets to the A-Arms, I wanted to get the
strongest bolts available, so I bought stainless steel
bolts/washers/nuts for this. Do you all think that this will work okay
and do I have to worry about any electrolytic action between the
stainless steel bolts and the regular steel of the A-Arms and the sway
bar mounting braket?
Regards,
Curt
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Curtis Carlson
'66 Austin Healey Sprite MkIII ("Gerty")
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