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Well the ducks are lined up to complete this saga over the Memorial weekend.
Last weekend was mostly wasted on urgent and unexpected Maytag and Cadillac repairs....
I established that the original thread for the problematic hub to strut bolt was not too badly damaged and had not been replaced with a helicoil.
It looked like someone had either lost the original bolt or stripped it and used another bolt with a marginally smaller thread.
To the eye the bogus bolt looks exactly the original like M10 1.25 but with a far smaller head.
I finally found two M10 1.25 bolts at a Pop hardware store (Mom was not around?) about five miles away, after all others failed.
Pop knew exactly where to find it amongst about 50 years of other dust laden inventory .....
I purchased two, as one was used to very carefully "re-bore" the original thread in the hub.
I was able to tighten past the torque setting without loss of grip, and then loosen and re-tighten to the torque setting.
The engine and sub-frame is back in place and all we hopefully need now is to connect the sway bar, connect the steering wheel shaft and transmission linkage, bleed the steering system and torque the suspension after the car is lowered and raised again.
Probably a little more time thereafter to figure out where that extra bolt, nut or screw came from.......
Apart from ensuring the steering rack boots are re-aligned what else should be considered when I relinquish control to the folks at the tire shop for wheel alignment?
Are they going to know what to do?
Ta,
Neville.
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