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Old 11-30-2015, 01:06 PM
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Default Re: Fender bolt color

Definitely not body color, as stated above.

Different product, but relevant story: when I worked on the assembly line at the truck plant we ran whatever we could.

The bolts at the front of the fender (pt number 3846202) that attached to the radiator support were supposed to be black but we discovered the cadmium version of the same bolt would not crossthread or break the weldnuts loose as easily. ("Lang" and "Ferndale" were the two fastener manufacturers but I don't remember which ones were the "good" ones).

As a result we would search through the plant and grab all the silver bolts we could find. We would run them on second shift and then stash them in our lockers when we left, putting all of the black bolts out for first shift.

They could never figure out why they had so many cross threaded bolts and we didn't.

K
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