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Nuts, bolts and screws on a 2a

Just a thought. I have 10 months of MOT left and want to strip the machine down, repair the bulkhead and replace parts of the tired but serviceable chassis and suspension. I was moving a trailer load of oak today and had to remove the rear door to fit some 14ft planks over the trailer. Heavy load, great machine for the job. However, getting the door off was interesting.

IDEA: Why not in the next 10 months spend 30 minutes a day loosening and greasing every nut and bolt on the machine, or even better replacing each where possible with a stainless steel alternative? When it finally comes to stripping the vehicle, hours and hours of bad mood could be avoided by using up your stress daily on a single nut and bolt. Even with plus gas, I sheared one bolt and stripped two removing the door.

:-)

Any thoughts on this piece of Zen and the Art of LR Maintainance?

Eddy Bayton

more importantly is there any chemical/corrosion problem between stainless steel and Birmalloy?

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eddy bayton
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Yes!! a Birmabright/Stainless/Steel is lethal, plus quite a lot of other nuts and bolts are high-tensile, but having said that there are a number that could benefit from being replaced by stainless.

Richard

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richard.watson

interesting.

Stainless steel nuts and bolts are a waste of a good Landrover, the stainless will be fine but the alloy will disappear into a salty mush before your eyes. Stick to the original nuts and bolts, use copper grease liberally on the threads. I've also found that heating non critical nuts and bolts upto dark straw colour and then quenching in old engine oil gives a nice protective carbon layer that copes with being tightened up at least a couple of times.

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Roger Martin

eddy bayton wrote: (snip)

Good idea

Yes. Stainless steel in should be insulated from electrical contact with aluminium alloys to avoid rapid electrolytic corrosion, especially if you live in an areaa that uses salt on the roads. The best solution is galvanised (not zinc plated) bolts and nuts, and assemble them with an anti-seize compound - and wash the mud and salt off as often as possible, paying attention to the bits where mud cakes. JD

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JD

ah ha, I had a suspicion this was the case before I started but thanks everyone for the input.

off to check out some galvanized nut and bolt sources.

cheers eddy

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eddy bayton

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