Originally Posted by
TommyI 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?
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.
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.
Originally Posted by
SinisterSntra91 I have stainless Acorn nuts on mine, bigger version of the ones that you find on our valve covers....
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.