Strut mount bolts too short....solution?
My Classic is running again.....and the Cusco bar is finally installed (I bought the bar two years ago :rofl and the damn strut mount bolts are too short.
I have searched under "cusco+strut+bolt" and "strut+mount+bolt" and every other combination I can think of, both here and on the other SR20 forum. No luck.
I also looked through Happynoles Cusco Group Buy thread. Every post. Although I am damn sure not reading every post in every closed Cusco GB thread. We are on GB #8, with a billion posts per thread. Besides, that would have still come up in my search effort. I think.
Obviously there is a solution to this issue, Joe (Happynole) has sold about a gazillion of these FSTB's. However, I cannot find the damn solution and am getting frustrated.
Pictures....
That looks unacceptable to me. Further, my mechanic (Mike) asserts that those short bolts are pretty iffy, and does not allow the lock nuts to properly secure themselves. However, he does not have a solution off the top of his head.
Is this so easy to fix that no one has asked about it before? .....
My mechanical ignorance knows no boundaries.
I have searched under "cusco+strut+bolt" and "strut+mount+bolt" and every other combination I can think of, both here and on the other SR20 forum. No luck.
I also looked through Happynoles Cusco Group Buy thread. Every post. Although I am damn sure not reading every post in every closed Cusco GB thread. We are on GB #8, with a billion posts per thread. Besides, that would have still come up in my search effort. I think.
Obviously there is a solution to this issue, Joe (Happynole) has sold about a gazillion of these FSTB's. However, I cannot find the damn solution and am getting frustrated.
Pictures....
Originally Posted by '93
What is up with the bolts being too short? I'm gonna have to search out the solution. Yeah, they will work like that, correct me if I am wrong, but I want a quarter (1/4) inch or so above the nut.
Proper installation of a Cusco FSTB per the ~Knuckleduster~ thread. Once again, the bolts being just barely long enough. Which is not enough in my book. Un-accept-able.
Nice engine bay shot. New stuff every-damn-where.
What is up with the bolts being too short? I'm gonna have to search out the solution. Yeah, they will work like that, correct me if I am wrong, but I want a quarter (1/4) inch or so above the nut.
Proper installation of a Cusco FSTB per the ~Knuckleduster~ thread. Once again, the bolts being just barely long enough. Which is not enough in my book. Un-accept-able.
Nice engine bay shot. New stuff every-damn-where.
That looks unacceptable to me. Further, my mechanic (Mike) asserts that those short bolts are pretty iffy, and does not allow the lock nuts to properly secure themselves. However, he does not have a solution off the top of his head.
Is this so easy to fix that no one has asked about it before? .....
My mechanical ignorance knows no boundaries.