We all assume you mean violet. These bolts are anodized (no doubt a spelling mistake there!) this gives them the purple to violet colour. Nothing wrong with them! At 17:14 16/01/1999 -0800, Tom Young wrote: >Hey everyone: > >I cleaned up the 6 large case "through bolts" on one of the Vanagon >engines I'm rebuilding and I noticed that a couple of them are really >beautiful - a gorgeous shade of violent, like they'd been anodized. Is >this color really the result of tempering of the steel (too hot) and do I >need to replace these bolts? > >TIA. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Tom Young young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU >Lafayette, CA 94549 '81 Vanagon >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- David Marshall - Vanagon List Admin - Quesnel, BC, Canada -- -- 78 VW Rabbit, 80 VW Caddy, 87 Audi 5KSQ, 85 VW Cabriolet -- -- 88 2.0L VW Syncro Double Cab, WANTED: VW / Bombardier Iltis -- -- David's Volkswagen Home Page http://www.volkswagen.org -- -- Fast Forward Autobahn Sport Tuning http://www.fastforward.ca -- -- david@volkswagen.org (pmail) or vanagon@volkswagen.org (list) -- |
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