Thread: Strut mount bolts too short....solution?

mine sit exactly like yours shawn, never had an issue.

I don't see how more people haven't run into this problem as well. Unless, they have and just don't want to mention it. Are you using OEM strut mounts Shawn?

Seriously? Damn.

I respectfully differ to both of you as more knowledgable than my clueless self.

Well, at least I know it is fully drivable as is.

And I may be causing myself unnecessary grief....

However, I am going to continue in my quest for the answer on which exact longer replacement bolts will work with the OEM strut mount.

Let me ask you gentlemen this:

If it were inexpensive to correct, and you knew exactly which replacement bolts to purchase, would you replace the bolts to gain that extra....1/2-inch or so of bolt? So the bolt sticks up a quarter inch or so above the nut.

I just checked the pic of the B13 in the Cusco group-buy thread and there doesn't seem to be much, if any thread protruding from the nuts in that pic either.

I have stainless Acorn nuts on mine, bigger version of the ones that you find on our valve covers....

Folks have apparently run into this "problem" and left it like that with apparently no secondary issues.

I am using the OEM mounts.

I am certainly no mechanical genius, but I don't like it like that. Even when working around my house (strangely enough I am pretty handy at that) I over-engineer everything. Like shelving. So it never breaks. Ever.

Maybe I am crazy for being so picky.


It's not a nut problem, it's a short bolt problem.

Although stainless replacement hardware is not a bad idea by any means. In fact, it would look real good.

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I *think* I shall have Mike remove the OEM strut mount. Hand it to me. Let me go by Home Depot or....there is a commercial fastener place on 11th Street in the Heights. I forget the name, but I know the location and it is on the way to both Lowes and Home Depot. We used to source our hardware there when I worked in sound, lighting, and video. They have every bolt, washer, hex head, fastener, forged eye-bolts, and weird misc. hardware known to modern man.

I am going to replace those bolts with the correct ones, one way or another, whether they really need it or not.

I dont have a part number and I tried to call tein and look on their website with no luck I will go to Tacoma Screw tomorrow or Thurs and see if I can find some longer studs for you. If I find some I can send them your way.

That would be awesome. If you find the correct bolts/studs, obviously give us the exact size, length, thread information. No problems on full reimbur$ement to you from my end.

I'll run by the commercial fastener place here in Houston tomorrow. If necessary, I'll then hit Home Depot and Lowes.

There has to be an easy off the shelf, inexpensive solution.

this is much like the wheel spacers and stock stud issue.........


the problem with the hardware store shawn is that you need studs not bolts. useing bolts would make instalation of the strut difficult unless you welded the head of the bolt to the strut mount.

I totally agree. I personally would want at least a few more threads past that nut. Just doesn't look safe to me.