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I started to take the fenders and bed off for painting and it got me to wondering, where do you buy the odd-headed 3/8-24 fender bolts? Also , what grade are they? Who has the best and complete carb kit?


Mark
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They are NF bolts. I was mostly able to re-use most of mine. The funny lock washers are sometimes a problem. I try to clean them first, before I try to remove them. I know, sometimes, that is not possible. I use never sieze, when they go back!

The military had a re build kit. Try the vendors that deal in M37 stuff. It had everything. I want to modify the main jet with a little smaller hole in it. It still runs too rich on our present day gasoline. The engine is getting broken in now - about 800 miles on it- all new stuff - .040 on the pistons, and lots of machine work. Maybe a mixture that has a lot of ethonal in it would be better. I have a therory: Our modern day gas takes more air to burn it clean, then the stuff they were making 50 years ago.

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Mark if your talking about the phillips head screws in the bed, midwest military stocks them. I found a stainless steel version at: http://www.mrgusa.com/pdfs/144-145truss.pdf. Its part # fa2628h. After fighting every rusted bolt and nut, I replaced what I could with stainless. The square lock washers are out there, but pricey. Save what you can. The hex headed bolts with the recessed head show up on ebay every so often or try Mcmaster-Carr.
 

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Re: RE: Bolts

rosco said:
They are NF bolts. I was mostly able to re-use most of mine. The funny lock washers are sometimes a problem....
Lee in Alaska
The internal/external lock washers serves the purpose of joining the metal parts of the truck for a continous electrical ground circuit, if the original ones lose their "bite", they won't serve this purpose well, I'd replace them with new heat treated ones....
 

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RE: Re: RE: Bolts

Tom at Snake River 4x4 stocks the square washers and has the best prices on them last time that I checked... John Bizal also has them in stock...
 

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RE: Re: RE: Bolts

Uhh....that's a lot of bolts!

Can't help you with all of them, but I'm sure your local hardware store has a lot of them. I replace all the heavy duty bolts with Grade 8, and all the light duty bolts with Stainless, since I don't ever want to deal with frozen bolts and nuts again!
 

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Re: RE: Re: RE: Bolts

maddawg308 said:
Uhh....that's a lot of bolts!

Can't help you with all of them, but I'm sure your local hardware store has a lot of them. I replace all the heavy duty bolts with Grade 8, and all the light duty bolts with Stainless, since I don't ever want to deal with frozen bolts and nuts again!
Not really all of them but there is a good number that I will be replacing
 
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