Thread: Wild LR pricing variations for similar bolts

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

just be carefull on prices for nuts and bolts.

some bolts requrie a specific tensile strenght others dont.

if you put a peanut paste 8.8 or unmarked bolt in a hole thats ment to have a 12.9 in it very bad things can happen.

dont be tempted to put 8.8 bolts or unmarked bolts into your vehicles drive flanges or brake rotor.

Why not?,Toyota bolted cruiser disc's on with mild steel bolts for 7 years,Quality control,whats dat!!. Pat

yeah but who cares what happens to a landcruiser !

Why would you go to a car dealer's spare parts department for a bolt unless it was a special bolt specific to a vehicle?

Try a fastener specialist next time and be surprised how cheap high quality hardware is if you go to the right place.

If in Brisbane try Fred Goddard at Bolts Steel and Tools in Hume st. Norman Park.

Originally Posted by spudboy

Yeah - I can imagine. Wouldn't mind emigrating for a year or two and stock up on parts to bring back here.

I found some Stainless ones on ebay.uk that were quite reasonable, but I'd rather not have the SS as I've read about galvanic corrosion with the alloy. Sticking with the genuine parts for this job.

Gday mate

I fitted Stainless to mine, on the door hinges they aren't bad. As you may know already they don't bolt straight into the bulkhead but rather into little captive nuts the slot into place. Between the door and bulkhead are some nylon spacers and your hinges are steel anyway

My Defender is coming onto 15 years and I'm just beginning to see some electrolisis bubbling the paint at the bottom of the doors. It was the same with my old one. They both had standard hinges and bolts

One trick though it to lather the bolts in copper coat before you put it all together, it'll make it easier to get them out next time

Here's when I did mine:

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/projects-t...er-hinges.html

Don't put copper coat on aluminium. Use Loctite Nickel anti-sieze.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Why would you go to a car dealer's spare parts department for a bolt unless it was a special bolt specific to a vehicle?

Try a fastener specialist next time and be surprised how cheap high quality hardware is if you go to the right place.

^^^^ that's what I was thinking, genuine LR bolts, they went rusty in 4 years, why would you wan't more crappy bolts

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Don't put copper coat on aluminium. Use Loctite Nickel anti-sieze.

But it's not on aluminium, it's on stainless steel threads . Thats what I was sent with my stainless bolts