The illustration in the Bentley manual specifically indicates the nuts, not the bolts, with the "always replace" admonishment. I looked again and noticed an astersik with a footnote, and it says "self locking nuts". I wonder if these are just nuts pre-treated with thread locker. I looked at the ones I removed and they do not seem to have any "deforming" features that would preclude re-use, in fact they look completely ordinary. Allan Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> writes: > I don't know about your VW stealership but mine would have a hard time > finding those bolts in the parts pictures and ordering them. NLA wouldn't > surprise me even. I don't think they are stretch type, but I'm not certain. > > Liability and safety would be the obvious concerns. > 'modern' ?? you're calling a 1980 to 1991 Vanagon 'modern' ?? |
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