[Roadsters] Datsun-roadsters Digest, Vol 3, Issue 122

[Gary and Cindy Ault]

In the power industry, we are skeptical of any steel supplied by China, 
especially fasteners.  Too much shoddy manufacture.

Although it can't hurt to replace fasteners if one is certain he/she is 
getting quality parts, unless there is a reason to think the bolts are bad, 
I'd re-use them.  Head bolts on a 2000?  No, I'd replace them, but most 
other fasteners on the car should be all right.

Gary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Toby B" <RacerY at comcast.net>
To: <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Datsun-roadsters Digest, Vol 3, Issue 122


>" I highly recommend against buying bolts from Home Depot
> and most local hardware stores.  There is a tremendous amount of 
> counterfeit
> gr.8 fasteners in the market place."
>
> Amen.  And that's increasingly true of metric fasteners, too.
>
> The worst part, anymore, is that 'Made in China' bolts can be perfectly 
> fine-
> or they can be dimensionally wrong, metallurgically flawed, and dangerous.
> And there's no easy way to tell.  We tested some stuff to destruction
> recently, and some of the uglier parts from questionable sources
> tested the best.
> And some nice- looking pieces from reputable vendors were marginal at 
> best.
>
> Frankly, unless there's something wrong with the fasteners that were 
> holding
> your car together, I'd re- use them.  They're not going to fail of old 
> age...
>
> Toby
> Seattle.
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