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Help with rocker pannel screws |
Harpo |
Jul 11 2015, 05:52 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,304 Joined: 21-August 11 From: Motor City aka Detroit Member No.: 13,469 Region Association: None |
My car is at paint and I would like to replace all of the rocker panel hardware. Does anyone have a source?
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EdwardBlume |
Jul 11 2015, 06:11 AM
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914 Wizard Group: Members Posts: 12,338 Joined: 2-January 03 From: SLO Member No.: 81 Region Association: Central California |
I use standard metric bolts, washers, etc from my local hardware store. The last car I bought included a Pelican bolt kit, but Porsche used standard metric sizes for the most part...
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Mikey914 |
Jul 11 2015, 09:14 AM
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The rubber man Group: Members Posts: 12,678 Joined: 27-December 04 From: Hillsboro, OR Member No.: 3,348 Region Association: None |
Let me know what you find and I'll start stocking these along with the spacers.
I believe they are a hex head on the ends quite small not threaded like a bolt more like a screw the bottoms are M6 bolts (12mm?). Hope this helps. I do have the pop rivets cheap. |
Harpo |
Jul 11 2015, 09:55 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,304 Joined: 21-August 11 From: Motor City aka Detroit Member No.: 13,469 Region Association: None |
I found two speed nuts on the top side of my rocker panels, one on each end. The other four holes on the top had nothing. I presume that they fell off. I checked bell metric but they don't have anything this small
https://www.belmetric.com/metric-screws-met...s-c-10_126.html I will check with my fastener suppliers @ work on Monday Mark yes it looks like the top screw is M4.2 and the bottom screw is M6 but I don't believe the M6 is a machine screw DAvid |
TheCabinetmaker |
Jul 11 2015, 09:59 AM
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I drive my car everyday Group: Members Posts: 8,304 Joined: 8-May 03 From: Tulsa, Ok. Member No.: 666 |
Bottom screw's were the same as the engine tin screw's.
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JawjaPorsche |
Jul 11 2015, 10:01 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,463 Joined: 23-July 11 From: Clayton, Georgia Member No.: 13,351 Region Association: South East States |
Got stainless bolts with Phillips head from Home Depot. Take old ones to match up length and metric size.
Instead of rivets, I used stainless screws. The link below has special spacers. http://www.914centralshop.com/Porsche-914-...-rubbersill.htm Attached thumbnail(s) |
Tom_T |
Jul 11 2015, 10:11 AM
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TMI.... Group: Members Posts: 8,318 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California |
#16 is a slotted cheese head metric, not hex Mark/Mikey914, & not Phillis Mark.
Phillips will cam-out before you get enough TQ on them to keep them in place. Germans apparently transliterated that to "pan head" - which I associate with a low rounded shape like the inside of a frying pan - but the originals on mine were cheese head, which are flat around the edge circumference & about 1/16 - 3/32" tall (as shown in the diagram if you zoom in) - & those give a bit more "meat" than a pan head for the screwdriver to bite into while torquing down or loosening them. Also, #13 is a black nylon/sim. spacer-washer about +/- 3/32" thick, which are harder to find than white ones (I just looked for similar ones in white for my Westy table locking bolts, but saw no black). I think the AA & maybe A&P Girl (Mark's link above) & maybe others carry a "kit" for this hardware. I got the AA kit a while back to make it easier for me. If you want to do the hunting yourself & aren't particular about being a bit off of originality (e.g.: hex instead of cheese head screws, etc.), then you can run the parts down using the PET descriptions at any old school hardware store(s) &/or online supplier(s) that stocks metric in a wide variety, but it will probably take you more than one source. Sometimes it's just more cost & time effective to let someone else who's done all the sourcing on a wholesale basis to sell you a kit for a bit more than you might pay for the parts yourself + hours of running them down yourself. Cheers! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// |
Mikey914 |
Jul 11 2015, 10:19 AM
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The rubber man Group: Members Posts: 12,678 Joined: 27-December 04 From: Hillsboro, OR Member No.: 3,348 Region Association: None |
I do gave the Pan heads that I brought in for the sheet metal they are .10 a pop. What I'm proposing is to just add these to the hardware section so every time this comes up someone can just grab kit for just about the price of the hardware. I have a hard time spending $15 for $4 worth of hardware. It's one thing if you manufacture it and have a cost to make it. I get that, but when it's a matter of sourcing it. If yo all want to source it I'll stock it. At hardware store prices.
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Harpo |
Jul 11 2015, 10:46 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,304 Joined: 21-August 11 From: Motor City aka Detroit Member No.: 13,469 Region Association: None |
The 4.2 screws (according to PET) are the same as #8. I was unable to find any speed nuts aka "U" nuts for the # 8 screws.
Are the M6 screws machine or space thread screws? Do they thread in to weld nuts? David |
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