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A good bit of my truck came in small plastic baggies and a large plastic tub...most of the bolts used to assemble the fenders, supports, sheet metal, bed, doors, and interior.

I have both a shop manual and an assembly manual. Trouble is, they both reference specific bolts as something like "Bolt, 3435674532."

Does anyone know of a source where I can cross-reference these numbers from the assembly manual? There are a surprising number of same-width shoulder bolts that go into fender assembly and I want to get the right length ones in the right spots without twelve days of trial and error.

Thanks,

Jim

You could try a delership to see if they can turn the part number into a size for you. Usally they have pretty good info in there parts system regarding part specs such as bolt size and thread pitch. You would probably have better results going in and asking rather than trying to get it done by phone. Chances are the numbers may have been changed and they may or may not be able to cross them over to new numbers. Good luck!

Jim, I understand your situation as mine was pretty well stripped at one time or another, pieced back together with what worked and so it went.
After trying to figure it all out I decided to not worry about "originality" as I was doing some modifications on my vehicle.
First thing I did was go to Ace Hardware and got me handful of bolts. 1/4" 5/16' 3/8'...all of them 1" long and also one each in fine thread and coarse thread. You may as well get some some 1/4" screws. A tapered and oval head. Next get you one of those plastic bolt guages,about $2, so you can check a bolt your not sure of to see what's the size and thread pitch. It'll make trips to Ace Hardware a lot less troublesome. All in all you may spend 5 or 6 bucks.

As I assembled mine I decided how long I wanted the bolts. No need in having bolt sticking out the back side an inch for you to rip the back side of your hand off.

Doing this made my life, and assembly a lot easier. On the 5/16 bolts and 3/8" I ended up just buying a small box of them.

(Sometime ago I had bought me a "boltbin" with about 72 cubby holes. Its worth the money and lots cheaper to buy by the box and dump them in if you can) Just an idea.

Good Luck.

"You could try a delership to see if they can turn the part number into a size for you."

Good luck with finding any antique vehicle info at a dealership.

The Vintage Chevrolet Club of America guys might know.

They are super crazy about "all original" and so forth.

Most of them can afford to be tho'.

-W

Thanks Achipmunk. A good plan that I think will help me out. I am sure there is some moldy bolt number reference from GM sitting in the dark recesses of an old auto shop somewhere, but until I find it, I will go this route. The cross-reference was just meant to save me trips to the hardware store during reassembly anyway.

Best,

Jim