Date:         Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:55:15 -0700
Reply-To:     Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From:         Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Diesel head issue... opinions?
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On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 03:25 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:

>
> All I know is I left the spacers off when I put mine back on, and it
> went
> fine.  Thankfully I had a friend who had already done a couple of
> these to
> help, and since he'd never seen the spacers on any of them before he
> just
> left them out.  I think the newer bolt design, as your parts guy
> indicated,
> doesn't need the spacers.  With the spacers on I bet you weren't
> grabbing
> enough threads.

This is making more sense now. the replacement bolts were probably
shorter than the old bolts, but I didn't bother to compare because
there was too much else to do, didn't know it was an issue, blah blah
blah. Anyway, would have been prudent. Would it have slowed me down to
ask the question? Hindsignt. I don't know.

I threw all the olds bolts away after I hacksawed two of them into
locator studs, so I'll never know.

But I'll bet that's what happened.
>