rigidshovel

hey all,

posted this in the F150 section but as yet no reply.....

....anyone had trouble breaking bolts.....put grade 8 in last time but still broke them.....next step will be to plate the chassis I guess....

BTW.....this is on my 84 F100.....

any ideas????

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aussieG

hey rigid ,
as a last resort y'a may have to plate the chassis ,a mate had the same problem .He went and got genuine Caterpillar grade 8 bolts - problem solved.
Cheers aussieG !!!

rigidshovel

are genuine caterpillar bolts harder than the grade eight ones I would have got from a general fastener supplier???

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aussieG

They are a better grade bolt. A mob that does chevy diesel conversions ,replace all the chev head bolts & main bearing cap bolts with cat bolts . The chev 350 diesels would strip head bolts, they never had any more trouble with the cat bolts.
hope that helps CHEERS aussieG!!

rigidshovel

bloody fanstastic....thanx for the info.....and as we run all cat engines in our kenworths, I should even be able to get them cheaper

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