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Old 08-11-2022, 05:58 AM   #8
Tim Ayers
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Default Re: Cast vs. stamped steel clam shells

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Originally Posted by Mac VP View Post
We acquire those for our core parts stock. I’d say about somewhere between a quarter and a third of them are the cast iron type. Due to the additional thickness I believe they need a slightly longer bolt to hold them together.
Interesting. I wonder if this accounts for the two different lengths of those special L bolts that hold the clam shell to the trans mount. I never knew there were two lengths until I started to amass approximately 20 of them.

The longer ones were harvested from '35/'36 trans mounts.
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