Peter:
I believe you nailed it. After trying to remove a stuck nut from one stud
(there's always one!) I scraped a little copper coating off the the center
of one stud. There is definitely steel underneath; and the stud is
attracted to a magnet.
Best regards,
Walt Fogle
'69 TR6, CC30689L
Woodinville, WA
Peter wrote:
>Dick,
>
>I just checked the studs that I recently got from TRF. They are steel
>but seem to be coated with a thin layer of copper.
>
>The studs on my car, also from TRF, are the same material but a couple of
>the short ones (top row) are beginning to rust. I think the copper
>coating is to provide some degree of rust resistance. I doubt that any
>of these studs were solid copper (or bronze/brass).
>
>Peter Macholdt
>'68 TR250
>
> >Walt---TRF is correct in that they are different, but only longer, to
> >allow for the 'football-shaped' clips that bridge the two manifolds.
> >Mine are definitely steel, but it wouldn't surprise me too much if the
> >factory used some other material on the early models.
> >
> >DT
> >'73
>
>
>Peter Macholdt
>609-466-2127 Phone
>609-466-6459 FAX
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