Mike;
If you use stainless nuts on stainless bolts, you'd better use a good
anti- seize compound when you assemble your headers. Stainless tends to
gall badly, especially at high temperature.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Meierle" <mike.meierle@alcatel.com>
To: "'Keith Turk'" <kturk@ala.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 6:51 AM
Subject: RE: Glen... don't you even...
> Sound Like me at the Hardware store yesterday, needed new METRIC nuts
and
> washers for the exhaust manifold, stop at Home Depot, what a joke in
the
> metric Dept. go to the local GOOD hardware Store, Find the Nuts and
> washers
> I need, look around a bit, hey there are Hardened ones! Put back the
> others,
> fish out my count re-mark the bag with new prices, walk down the
aisle,
> Whoa! Stainless Steel!!! Put the hardened ones back (PITA) fish out my
> count
> of nuts and washers again, throw away old bag start with a new bag,
mark
> the
> prices again, all of that just because I can't stand having two size
nuts
> for one application...
> I'm only trying to make Maxton in September!
>
> {rant switch=off}
>
> Mike Meierle
> #847 F/P/MP
> ECTA Record Holder
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