Thread: Welding my nuts
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Old 2nd March 2011, 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Davey View Post
Never mind Mr IVA's feelings, do you want the seatbelts/harnesses to restrain if/when you get it badly wrong? If you answer yes to this then the only answer is fully welded nuts surely?

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Surely having a captive nut or not, does not give the bolt any more strength in a collision? The captive nut is simply because trying to do a nut up behind the transmission tunnel is next to impossible. Besides welding the nut must introduce some unwanted heat that could affect the thread strength?
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