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Re: Hundred Carb Studs - Help!!!

To: Claude Vaughn <dncvaughn@yahoo.com>, healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Hundred Carb Studs - Help!!!
From: Blue One Hundred <international_investor@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 10:34:14 -0700 (PDT)
Claude -

SU Midel in Australia sells them.  www.sumidel.com

Cheers,

Alan

'53 BN1 '64 BJ8

--- Claude Vaughn <dncvaughn@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Listers,
> 
> I have two stripped studs on my BN2 intake manifold.
> 
> The studs that the carbs bolt to.  They're not
> available anywhere I've tried
> (Moss/AHSpares/VB/Surgeons).  I also cannot find a
> die
> to match.  The studs appear to be 3/8 20tpi.  I've
> looked in Grainger/Craftsman/HD catalogs and nobody
> has a die that size.  I'm going to a machine shop
> Monday and see if they can rethread them.  My fear
> is
> that the machine shop will not have the proper die. 
> I
> hate to grind off the ends if there is another
> alternative.  I also hate to try and force one of my
> new bolts onto it in the hopes of rethreading it and
> only boogering it up more.  Are these studs some
> super
> secret size?  I only said they "appear to be" 3/8
> 20. 
> I would assume that if they actually were that the
> die
> would be readily available.  Please let me know if
> that is the actual size.  I can't wait to try out my
> new Curto-ized carbs.
> 
> Thanks,
> Claude





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