by Grumpy AuContraire <Grumpy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Feb 12, 2008 at 03:52 AM
Barry wrote:
> "ALEX M." <eng42b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:Bp0sj.3277$qV2.2850@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>But, I wonder if they used less on the body bolts because of the rubber
>>spacers?
>
>
> I have wondered the same also since the rubber would be crushed so flat
that
> it would be like haviing a steel washer, with no resilience. If that
were
> the case, though, the factory would have used self-locking nuts on them.
>
I would suspect that rubber was used more as a silencer than a cu****on.
Besides, weren't body bolts more in the line of grade 3?
JT
