Crash beam bolts - stainless? - Page 3

Blink · 4th October 2019, 09:41

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Originally Posted by HarryM1BYT

I'm not seeing any rust there. The beam is alloy, carefully designed to crush in an accident and be replaceable in a minor shunt..

I meant the heads (as Teflon says)

Blink · 4th October 2019, 09:43

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Originally Posted by Teflon

I was looking to replace my suspension top nuts with stainless until the good folks of this forum explained why it may be unwise. Instead, I polished up the originals and gave them a coat or 2 of clearcoat. A few years on and they still look like this:

Blimey, those are the factory top mount nuts

- they look like SS.

mbonwick · 4th October 2019, 18:15

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Originally Posted by Blink

Thanks for info Brian. I hadn't realised beam was aluminium. I'll whip the bolts out and de-rust them, paint on heads.

Put a little spot of paint on the crash bar as well, under where the bolt head will sit.

That way you stop the bolt rusting from the underside of the head upwards.

Blink · 5th October 2019, 09:33

Above pics - behind the crash beam. Nice little collection of soggy mud there. This must all have come down from the boot lid drainage channels, past the lamp clusters and under the bumper rim. Good job the factory sprayed some decent wax into those 41" chassis legs. Think I'll give em a good squirt of S50.

More rusted 8.8s.

5th October 2019, 09:33	#24
Blink Posted a thing or two Rover 75 Saloon Join Date: Apr 2019 Location: Under the car Posts: 1,840 Thanks: 210 Thanked 244 Times in 221 Posts	Above pics - behind the crash beam. Nice little collection of soggy mud there. This must all have come down from the boot lid drainage channels, past the lamp clusters and under the bumper rim. Good job the factory sprayed some decent wax into those 41" chassis legs. Think I'll give em a good squirt of S50. More rusted 8.8s.