I'm soon to start replacing the clutch on a great little toy car
(Micra). It's worth the trouble ('onest). However having taken a good
look around the various nuts n bolts that will have to come off are in
a sorry state ie rusted up heads. They are safe enough but it's just
the usual state they get into. Apart from the Nissan dealer, is there
someplace I can get the correct quality nuts n bolts to replace them
someone can suggest?

I see B&Q have metric n&B but I wouldn't use them to hold say the
brake caliper on! Actually I'm only guessing they are metric - need to
look further to confirm.
Thanks

"dave" wrote in message
...
I'm soon to start replacing the clutch on a great little toy car
(Micra). It's worth the trouble ('onest). However having taken a good
look around the various nuts n bolts that will have to come off are in
a sorry state ie rusted up heads. They are safe enough but it's just
the usual state they get into. Apart from the Nissan dealer, is there
someplace I can get the correct quality nuts n bolts to replace them
someone can suggest?

I see B&Q have metric n&B but I wouldn't use them to hold say the
brake caliper on! Actually I'm only guessing they are metric - need to
look further to confirm.

Any will do so long as you see the hi-tensile '8.8' stamped on them.
--
Mike W

visionset wrote:
"dave" wrote in message
...
I'm soon to start replacing the clutch on a great little toy car
(Micra). It's worth the trouble ('onest). However having taken a good
look around the various nuts n bolts that will have to come off are in
a sorry state ie rusted up heads. They are safe enough but it's just
the usual state they get into. Apart from the Nissan dealer, is there
someplace I can get the correct quality nuts n bolts to replace them
someone can suggest?

I see B&Q have metric n&B but I wouldn't use them to hold say the
brake caliper on! Actually I'm only guessing they are metric - need to
look further to confirm.

Any will do so long as you see the hi-tensile '8.8' stamped on them.
--
Mike W

8.8 is the minimum you should accept.
eBay sells lots of these. Avoid stainless unless they are in
non-critical applications as they're not strong enough.

John

In article ,
dave wrote:
I'm soon to start replacing the clutch on a great little toy car
(Micra). It's worth the trouble ('onest). However having taken a good
look around the various nuts n bolts that will have to come off are in
a sorry state ie rusted up heads. They are safe enough but it's just
the usual state they get into. Apart from the Nissan dealer, is there
someplace I can get the correct quality nuts n bolts to replace them
someone can suggest?

I'd be surprised if they really do need replacing. Nuts are easy enough to
find though, but some bolts may be more difficult.

I see B&Q have metric n&B but I wouldn't use them to hold say the
brake caliper on! Actually I'm only guessing they are metric - need to
look further to confirm.

Yes, I don't think B&Q ones are high tensile. Nor is the rust protection
on them much good.

This is one supplier that specialises in car stuff.

http://www.namrick.co.uk/

--
*You sound reasonable......time to up my medication

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

After serious thinking dave wrote :
I'm soon to start replacing the clutch on a great little toy car
(Micra). It's worth the trouble ('onest). However having taken a good
look around the various nuts n bolts that will have to come off are in
a sorry state ie rusted up heads. They are safe enough but it's just
the usual state they get into. Apart from the Nissan dealer, is there
someplace I can get the correct quality nuts n bolts to replace them
someone can suggest?

I see B&Q have metric n&B but I wouldn't use them to hold say the
brake caliper on! Actually I'm only guessing they are metric - need to
look further to confirm.
Thanks

They will be metric, almost all fixings on cars are these days.

Most towns have a nut, bolt and fixings specialist, just use the yellow
pages. Some parts are critical so make sure you swap like for like as
in tensile strength - look for numbers stamped on the the faces such a
8.8. Some of the bolts will be special as in made for the job, perhaps
with a unique thread and shoulder length, but for everything else you
should be able to get them from a normal supplier.

Same often applies to bearings, seals, drive belts and chains - as in
much cheaper from an wholesale supplier rather than a dealer.

--

Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

dave wrote:

someplace I can get the correct quality nuts n bolts to replace them

Namrick
http://www.namrick.co.uk/
Good place for vehicle fasteners.

"dave" wrote in message
...
I'm soon to start replacing the clutch on a great little toy car
(Micra). It's worth the trouble ('onest). However having taken a good
look around the various nuts n bolts that will have to come off are in
a sorry state ie rusted up heads. They are safe enough but it's just
the usual state they get into. Apart from the Nissan dealer, is there
someplace I can get the correct quality nuts n bolts to replace them
someone can suggest?


Much good advice from the usual culprits, though I think Namrick are one
of the more expensive suppliers. One other point to watch: Japanese
makers often use non-standard head sizes on their bolts, so if you find
you need spanner sizes other than 8, 10, 13, 17, and 19mm, chances are
it's not an ISO metric fastener. Whether or not this matters in a
particular application has to be judged at the time. The common ISO
metric fasteners that you'd get by just asking for, say, "an M8 nut" are
from the Coarse series, but it's possible you'll come across fasteners
from the Fine series, too.

All of which is a strong argument for going into a friendly fastener
supplier (oxymoron) and asking for "one of these". Beware minimum
invoice values, though beer tokens are sometimes an effective currency.


--
Kevin Poole
**Use current month and year to reply (e.g. )***

"John" wrote in message
ups.com...

visionset wrote:

Any will do so long as you see the hi-tensile '8.8' stamped on them.
--
Mike W

8.8 is the minimum you should accept.
eBay sells lots of these. Avoid stainless unless they are in
non-critical applications as they're not strong enough.

John


Does this mean that hi-tensile nuts etc. are now meeting their relevant
specifications? I can remember a Safety Alert some years ago when
sub-standard hi-tensile nuts had crept into the UK supply system.
Fortunately, we only used avionic certified fasteners for our critical work,
but common stuff tested as being pretty bad.

--
M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK



--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

Much good advice from the usual culprits, though I think Namrick are one
of the more expensive suppliers. One other point to watch: Japanese
makers often use non-standard head sizes on their bolts, so if you find
you need spanner sizes other than 8, 10, 13, 17, and 19mm, chances are
it's not an ISO metric fastener. Whether or not this matters in a
particular application has to be judged at the time. The common ISO
metric fasteners that you'd get by just asking for, say, "an M8 nut" are
from the Coarse series, but it's possible you'll come across fasteners
from the Fine series, too.

It's not only the Japanese that do that. I've come across Ford exhaust
manifold nuts that weren't mm or AF. Rover 100 engine mounts similarly
odd sized. Eventually found a BSW socket fitted perfectly even though
they were M12 thread.

John

"John" wrote in message
ups.com...

but it's possible you'll come across fasteners
from the Fine series, too.

It's not only the Japanese that do that. I've come across Ford exhaust
manifold nuts that weren't mm or AF. Rover 100 engine mounts
similarly
odd sized. Eventually found a BSW socket fitted perfectly even though
they were M12 thread.

Well yes, but I didn't want to have to admit I'd ever worked on a Ford,
or a Rover 100, or a French car, or even a French engine in an English
car.

Proper cars, of course, have square-headed bolts.


--
Kevin Poole
**Use current month and year to reply (e.g. )***

Autolycus wrote:

Proper cars, of course, have square-headed bolts.

I don't recall ever having seen a square headed bolt.
Square-headed screws yes, and plenty of square nuts on studs.

In the other group (not sheds, the other other one), Tom of NZ would no
doubt argue that proper engines used studs and not bolts.

In article . com,
Andy Dingley wrote:
In the other group (not sheds, the other other one), Tom of NZ would no
doubt argue that proper engines used studs and not bolts.

I well remember trying to remove the cylinder head from a Triumph
Mayflower. Side valve engine with ally head. Studs and nuts for the
fixings. It was so well stuck I had to remove the pistons and whack it off
via the bores - after exhausting all possibilities with releasing fluid
and heat, etc. Studs have a habit of doing this...

--
*Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.