....how do keap track of all your nuts,bolts & fittings, rubbers etc?

have you got a way of keaping it all in order

regards smits

 

food bags with marker telling me whats what and photos so i know what came from where!

 

I usually lose most things

 

Usally try and use a few boxes, inside parts, engine bay parts etc.

Also a big box of new nuts and bolts are handy to

 

Put em all in a big box and just somehow manage to remember where they all go. I didnt have anything spare when I did a nut and bolt rebuild on my last 2wd Cos engine.

 

i place them all on the shelf/garage floor in a order/groups i think i'll remember. Then normally my old man or brother will knock them and i'm in the shit...

 

thats why i ask cos we usualy have a dose of scrap cars we get things from but the councils took them away theres nothing on the ground where they once sat & i dont fancy doing that with my s1

 

memeory lol

but it dont help when you TOTALLY strip a car down for a full inside and out paint job, then over a year later try to put it back together

i think im gonna be a bit fucked on that front lol

 

if you've owned and been around RS's long enough you just remember where every nut and bolt goes.

 

just make the car lighter....more power to weight....

 

thats what im talking about? im ok with engines but its when interior etc comes apart& youve left it for months

its ok if you do it all in one day

 

well saying that, i helped my mate take the engine out his skyline in may, put it back in in late october lol

i remembered where most of the bolts went lol

had a few spare tho

 

that's why the engine fell out 100miles down the line

 

pmsl, fuck knows what hes done to it now

 

BAGGED & TAGGED.Takes a bit longer to strip,but saves a lot of stress when fitting back up.

 

When my brothers company strips down cars they use cardboard (ceriel box??) and punch the bolts through in order and sellotape nuts onto it. They usually draw an outline of the item the bolts are for as a reference.

if thats confusing i'll try again, lol

May be of help to someone!

cott

 

I put all mine in marked envelopes so i knew where they would all go

But then i decided to do have everything zinc passivated an i got em all back like this

Just rebuilding the car now and i aint got a clue where most of em go

 

Usually use re-sealable bags but memory and the fact that every other month im pulling one of my cossies apart helps.

 

I just re fit everything with new parts

 

Learnt over time the best thing to do is try and bolt them/place them where they came from after you've taken it off so at least you know where to look.

Realistically, same as most people, you lose some or have some left over

 

when i did my s1 i just brought new bolts,that easyer

 

I just put as many nuts back on back on after i took the bits off. Wasn't too much lying around then.

 

same here. all my bits are EVERYWHERE.

All I have is a shit load of photos.

 

I put them all in a tub, I've had the thing apart so many times I can seem to remember where they go. Shame my memories crap for everything else

 

exactly what i did with my cabby and sierra

decided just go to fords and order all the nuts and bolts etc

once i got them home it was time to sort out

but ford gave me the part numbers with diagrams so i knew what was what

but as already said

food bags and marker and you carnt go wrong