<VV> Help - Rear Strut Rod Mounting Bolt Length

[Cliff Tibbitts]

Chet, your car is about 40 years old.  Imagine all the people that have
worked on it over the years and how many times those bolts have been
removed, and/or replaced.  

Take Bob's advice.  Just run them in by hand and make sure none of them
bottom out, if they do, get some shorter ones.  I just re-installed my strut
rods and all were the same length, I seem to recall. 

Anyway, it sounds like you about have it back together.  Good luck. 

Cliff Tibbitts
Lexington, KY

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Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:29 PM
To: ChiefTAM at aol.com; virtualvairs at skiblack.com
Subject: Re: <VV> Help - Rear Strut Rod Mounting Bolt Length

Well, nobody seems to know, but maybe because the probably should all be
the 
same size.   After I got going, I found out that I had to put in  the 
driveshaft/half shaft before I put on the rear strut rods.  As I took  one
loose to 
put in the driveshaft, I found that I don't have 4 short and 4 long  bolts,
but 
at least 5 short ones.  I am 98% sure these are the bolts that  came out of 
the mounts almost two years ago, so I put one side of the driveshaft  in,
and 
then put in the bolts, didn't seem to matter where the longer ones went,
they 
all seemed to fit.  Hope that's right!  Oh well, got one side  done and the 
other half done, so it is going back together.  Got to get  everything
hooked up 
and the gas tank drained so we can fire up and break in the  new motor maybe

next week!
 
Todd in Texas
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