well, somehow i lost the bolts and nuts that go to the tranny mounts and the engine mounts as well as the radiator bolts. where do u guys recommend that i go to get these bolts? i cant find my haynes manual so I cant tell which size i need and everything. where do u guys recommend that i go to find them?

thanks in advance
hassell

 

i would go to the dealer

 

junkyard....

 

i got mine from a forum member. just post an ad in the for sale and wanted.

 

cool......thanks

 

JY fool......it's always christmas in that place.

 

What do you mean JY?

 

junk yard

 

If your lucky enough, your parts guy will gave you a handful of brand new cadium coated bolts and nuts for free. six rotors Is the man!

 

bwhahaha

I raped myself with bolts earlier this year, I lost almost all the stock bolts during a 5spd swap (enging/tranny bolts, tranny bolts, driveshaft, halfshaft, everything!)


Thanks to the local napa dealer, and Rx7Club for getting me pitch threads, everything works excellent now! Though some of the replaced bolts are cheap *** allow thats gotten crosstreaded and chewed to hell (I don't dare thouch them)...

Haynes and the FSM won't say **** about bolts. I learned that first hand, you gotta rely on someone to remove an old bolt, and check the size and pitch thread. Almost like noone documents that ****.

 

IIRC the engine/tranny bolts are m12x1.5 DO NOT QUOTE THAT ON ME however.

Also, teh bottom most engine/tranny bolt IS NOT identical pitch thread as the rest of teh engine/tranny bolts. Mazda wanted to rape anyone that used new bolts, so they changed the pitch thread on one of the 5 or 6 mounts (Grrrrrr...)

EDIT: said m12 above seems really small, maybe its m14...

 

What, hardware stores don't exist in San Jose/ Santa Cruz?

Seriously, try the hardware store. Since they are metric, they may he hard to find in the states. But every community has a fastener store. You should be able to find anything you need there.

 

I think you have to get the right hardness, otherwise it will shear

For example, could someone advise what hardness bolt we should use for mounting the alternator......you know...the FD alternator swap that needs a new bolt?

thanx

 

imma go check out the dealer. Wish me luck

 

good luck

 

i may have some if you are still having problems. take some picturs of them beside a ruler and ill see what i can dig up from my countless amounts of bolts i have accumulated.

 

The engine/trans bolts on my 1991 are M10x1.25, considered fine thread, common for automotive applications into cast iron (fine thread).

 

yup....I got 1.25 from the hardware store.........i found the tranny mounts........all I need is radiator mounts.

 

thats why I couldn't get that ******* thing to mount... Its holding with like two threads I should have thought about that earlier...