RS dif. cover, what bolts?

[Cornfield creations]

I tried using stainless 3/8 bolts with some washers ground down, but they don't fit exactly right. What does everyone else use to fit in the machining on this dif. cover? Button heads?

 

[stumpbuster]

just 3/8 x 3/4 long bolts

 

[DeviousK5]

I just installed a RS cover on my 14BFF , and used button head allens:3/8 by 1 in i long IIRC. The other thing to consider and the problem i ran into(and im not the only one) was that 4 bolt holes didnt line up 100%. I ended up drilling all the holes out to the 13/32 to have a little give. Worked great. A week or so later i was talking with Trevor of WFO concepts who buys some of their covers from RS and says they have to do the same thing.

 

[Big Blzn]

Ditto on the holes having to be drilled out on some of mine for my D44 front cover.

As for the washers I used what I think are called AN washers or something to that effect. They are just barely bigger than the hex of the bolt head but fit in the machined hole area.

 

[bp71k5]

X2. I just used lock washers which are the same size as the head. I didn't have to drill out any holes though.

 

[Cornfield creations]

Yeah I had to drill a few holes also.

I ended up swapping out the bolts for shorter ones without washers, worked ok. I will get some button heads with those AN washers sometime. Thanks for the input guys!

 

[Zeus33rd]

Drilling out bolt holes? There is no excuse for that. It's just too easy to get the holes right. I hope you guys didn't pay to much for those things.

 

[stumpbuster]

Drilling out bolt holes? There is no excuse for that. It's just too easy to get the holes right. I hope you guys didn't pay to much for those things.

i know

wtf??


washers?
drilling holes??

oy vey