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Old 05-25-2018, 01:56 AM   #7
mr48chev
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Re: '52 chevy bed bolt question

[QUOTE=Erics51chevy;8267416]I got 9/16 by 3 inch grade 8 bolts for the front cab

Bolts are NEVER ! measured by the size of the head, you go by the size of the shank/threads. That would be a 3/8 x 3 bolt. You send the poor fool for a 9/16 bolt and they will laugh him out of the bolt store.

And I know mechanics in the Army measured bolts by the blasted head size as I had a go around with one of those bone heads when I sent a guy to get a 3/8 bolt and he sent back a hex head machine screw with a 3/8 head.
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