I beg to disagree. All engines I have rebuilt here get stainless hardware everywhere possible. Never seen any problems related to the use of stainless hardware on the engine cases or elsewhere. See here > http://www.frankcondelli.com/21engpcs.htm
On 2011-05-05, at 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > I sure would not be putting any stainless fasteners on it. > they are not as strong .. > stainless is not titanium or 'fautless' like people want to think it is.
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