If you mean the ones on the poptop itself, these are metric, which may be hard to find in stainless. You can then replace both bolt and nut with SAE if you choose. The ones on the luggage rack thread into captive nuts, so you need metric (M6 I believe), or re-tap the threads to SAE. I haven't gone stainless on mine, as I remove them all, wirewheel them to bare metal, then spray them with off white paint. This has lasted 10 years on my 88 without rust coming back, and looks original. All of the poptop ones can be tightened from the inside with a socket/wrench, while holding the bolt; this way the painted slot doesn't get marked up. The luggage rack ones I put some tape on the screwdriver to protect the paint. On 3 Jun 2006 at 6:25, Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote: > Karen, > Take one out and take it to a marine or hardware store (locally I'd go to > Lowe's) and it will take the mystery out of getting the right size. I'm > presuming that you're talking about the phillips screws that hold the canvas on? > bob > > Subject: poptop Stainless Steel Screws > > Where can I get stainless steel screws (sloted) for poptop. I see they > > have > > at GoWesty but anyplace else where I can get? I heard marine store but I > > don't know size and want to get exact replacement. > > >
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