Originally Posted by Hotrod Lincoln
There are specialty bolts intended for assembling truck frames and other purposes where a precision fit is required. Regular bolts- - - -no way. The resulting assembly will be sloppy loose, and it will be impossible to keep the truck tracking in a straight line going down the road.
Jerry

Thanks Jerry,

Do these specialty bolts have a name?

Also back to rivets. How were they assembled in the plant back then. Were they undersized and installed hot and crushed to fit? Or were they over sized and soaked in LN2 prior to install?.

Spartan


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Spartan

1959 Chevy Spartan 100 "Battle Wagon"
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