UrS4 Strut pinch bolt size & Bira brake bracket interference

[Mark Rosenkrantz]

For the newer cars, the correct nut and bolt are just a couple of dollars.  Are the older cars any more expensive?

So cheap, why bother sourcing anything else?

Mark Rosenkrantz
Typos sent from my BlackBerry.

-----Original Message-----
From: Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:02:50 
To: <dgraber460 at aol.com>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: UrS4 Strut pinch bolt size & Bira brake bracket interference

Metric wouldn't be Grade 8, they have that other system.

One thing with those bolts is they have a certain amount of unthreaded 
length, IIRC.

Also use a new locknut, of course.

dgraber460 at aol.com wrote:
> My understanding (which is only hearsay, and my own assumptions) is that a grade 8 would be more than sufficient, and easily sourced.
> My other assumption is that it is head forward so that in the rare case the nut vibrates off, the bolt will be more likely to stay in place.
> Anyone with the true engineering "facts", feel free to chime in.
> 
> Dennis 
> Denver
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Talley <talleycm at gmail.com>
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Sent: Wed, Jun 2, 2010 9:35 am
> Subject: UrS4 Strut pinch bolt size & Bira brake bracket interference
> 
> 
> Hello All
> Is the strut/ball joint pinch bolt a off the shelf or a dealer only part.
> ither way does someone have a spec or a part number.
> I had to grind the head off to remove thebolt and strut, because the Bira
> racket for the BBK prevent easy extraction,  the Bentley indicates that the
> ead should point forward, with the brake bracket it the way that will be
> mpossible without removal of the bracket which I am relunctant to do. Why
> oes the bolt need to be instalelled in this direction and will it be a bad
> dea to install backwards to aid future removal.

-- 
Huw Powell

http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi

http://www.humanthoughts.org/
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