Originally Posted by SafeChav
Originally Posted by Turbo-Beal
Originally Posted by SafeChav
Originally Posted by Turbo-Beal
NOTE!!!!DO NOT USE STAINLESS NUTS AND BOLTS ON SUSPENTION, AND LOAD BEARING PARTS AS THIS COULD BE DANGEROUS!!
. When using stainless you have to be carful where you use them as they dont have the tensile strenght of the original ht bolts used. Be very cautious of what you are replacing them with. What i would suggest is to strip down all the bits from underneath the car and take down a selection of bolts you want to replace to your local fasteners and get the corect type of nuts and bolts for the job. You will find most of the important bolts will have 8.8 or 10.5 on the head (This denotes the tensile strenght of the bolt in NM). some if not alot of the nuts and bolts can be replaced in stainless but you have to be aware that some you deffo cannot for safey
There aren't many bolts that you can't replace, most stainless bolts have the same tensile rating stamped in the head.
I beg to differ on the tensile ratings of the stainless nuts and bolts, they have a higher rating than standard steel bolts but not the same as tensile bolts
Im just bringing it up cuz i wouldnt want peeps doing a resto on there car with somthing that wasnt adiquate to the job, if you know what i mean
im not saying dont use them as it is a great idea but just dont go replacing all the suspention parts with em as imo is a bad idea
If you look and compare the tensile ratings on the bolts to that of stainless ones you won't find many, if hardly any at all that the stainless ones can't be used for
Well if you look at the suspention components they are all done in 8.8 or 10.5 ht bolts. If you have or are thinking of replacing them with stainless i recon you are asking for trouble imo. I dont know where you got your information from but i would just say be aware of what you are doing. If you think about it logicaly most peeps on here are running highly modified cars. When mr ford was designing his rs turbo it was never manufactured to cope with the sort of power that alot of ppl are running through them nowadays. Realistically you want to be uprating your bolts not running somthing lesser