<VV> Rear Wheel Hubs

[Ron]

All you have to do is look at the head markings which you should do 
automatically anyway.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ewell Mills" <emills5@cfl.rr.com>
To: <Sethracer@aol.com>
Cc: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 4:53 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Rear Wheel Hubs


> Seems everyone is in agreement on the 1/4" U-Joint bolts.  Nothing wrong 
> with
> them as long as you don't confuse them with valve cover or shroud bolts 
> that
> are not grade 8.  Some even suggested that if the old ones had been
> overtorqued they could be in danger of breaking.  If I had thought about 
> it, I
> probably would have replaced all 16 of them with new grade 8 bolts from
> Clark's or elsewhere.  At .70 cents each it might possibly have been a 
> good
> idea....but that's hindsight now.
> I did make sure that I used the same bolts that I took out of them, so 
> they
> should at least be O.K as to grade.
>
> Thanks to all who replied with the why's and where fors.
>
> Cecil Mills
> Cocoa, Fl.
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Sethracer@aol.com
>  To: emills5@cfl.rr.com ; virtualvairs@corvair.org
>  Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 2:35 AM
>  Subject: Re: <VV> Rear Wheel Hubs
>
>
>  In a message dated 1/23/2005 4:57:12 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> emills5@cfl.rr.com writes:
>    My question is twofold.  The first concerns why the general went from
> 1/4"
>    bolts to 5/16" bolts.  Obviously the larger ones on 66 forward are
> stronger,
>    but was this done due to failure of the smaller ones, or just a
> precaution.
>
>  My belief is that the manufacturing engineers wanted to diffrentiate 
> those
> bolts from another 1/4-20 grade "nothing" bolt in use there. It was not a
> production line problem, although it might be a good test to see how often
> they were correctly torqued. The drive shafts U-joiunt straps were 
> installed
> totally separately than the valve cover bolts - which they resemble.  But 
> I
> have found grade "nothing" bolts in place on driveshafts and grade 8 bolts 
> on
> valve covers - Hmmm? Could that be the reason?
>
>  Seth Emerson
>  Sethracer@aol.com
>  C's the day! Corvair, Camaro, Corvette
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