Nuts & Bolts for Winter Work

[geoffn]

As I am due to start some refurb over the winter period and would look to change some of the rusted up nuts and bolts, can anyone help with the types and sizes required for the different jobs, eg front and rear suspension. Is there somewhere on the web I can go to that gives me an idea as to what is required. Any help would be appreciated

[GreenV8S]

Steve Heath Engineering sells bolt kits that will cover most of the bits you're after.

[geoffn]

Thanks, I will try them

[Barkychoc]

I looked into this a while back and some of the bolts are non standard sizes, they have to be specially machined.
Steve Heath does an entire suspension kit for £50, which when you consider the hassle involved sourcing elsewhere isn't too bad value I feel.

Chris

[sparkypete]

Well I have just replaced all mine from the front suspension, all I did was leave the old ones with a local nut and bolt supplier who sorted all the nuts and bolts for the Metric and bolts for the 1/2 UNF threaded ones,all I had to do was to locate some 1/2" UNF nuts which he did not stock. Luckily another local company had a bag of old stock items with 350 nuts in it.
I had to shell out the princely sum of £2.00 for twenty of the UNF nuts.

I am waiting for the invoice for the bolts, but I am sure that they will not amount to much.

Pete

[spludge]

I have an excel spreadsheet listing the nuts and bolts I've taken off mine during a refurb. Its not a complete list and only covers the work I have done on my S3 but does include suspension etc. PM me through my profile and I'll send it across if it would help.

Front suspension is all standard sizes. Its trailing arm pivot bolts that are the tricky ones, an unusual size and non-standard length, oh and the rear shocks. I looked at a couple of the online suppliers to source them all myself but concluded that the Steve Heath kit is a reasonable deal.

K