These bolts are supposed to be Nylocs (or possibly Clevelocs).
Were yours still tight enough to work?
Here is a cool web site I just discovered: www.boltscience.com
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
At 10:58 AM 1/16/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>Yesterday I was servicing the rear brakes on my 1968 Spitfire Mk III. I had
>it up on stands and all the wheels off and the brake drums off. As I was
>putting the brake drum back on I noticed something shiny. I looked up under
>the body and saw that one of the bolts on the top of the rear swing spring
>had backed its way out at least an inch! It was the oil from the diff that
>was shiny. Well I finished putting the brakes together and then climbed in
>and took the cover over the spring bolts off to check it out. It turns out
>that of the 6 bolts holding the spring and diff together, 4 were loose!
>Ooops. Needless to say, I removed the bolts, cleaned them up and put them
>back on tightly this time.
>
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