Reuse? or Replace hardware?

[MustangEater82]

Whats everyone's take on this?
I do get the idea some fasteners get replaced, based on teh style fastener. What is peoples take on this?

I planned to replace the flywheels bolts, but I was thinking about reusing driveshaft, and pressure plate bolts. I was going to clean and blue locktite them. Seems like the driveshaft bolts had some sort of loctite or sealant on them.

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[sk47]

Hello; Many decades ago I reused most every bolt when doing repair work. Now that I am older and more experienced I do sometimes get new fasteners for some things. Blue locktite is one of the better things to have come around.
Some bolts are meant to stretch when torqued to specs and I have read about how they should not be reused. I have buckets of old bolts and nuts saved from jobs. I reuse for sure when not on a critical part.
I get new for critical parts such as suspension, brakes and such. Also sometimes for parts hidden inside of major components that are hard to get to, including clutch work.
My take is you can get away with reusing bolts most of the time since I have done so. I was poor back when I started working on my own stuff so often did not have the extra cash to do things the best way. Now I am flush and will tend to replace when any question is in play.
Good luck

 

[MustangEater82]

I get it to, I work on aircraft, almost always replace self locking nuts, but bolts many bolts can be reused, onces that can't are not. I understand the physics of torqueing, over torqueing stretch to yield, stretch bolts etc....


I just find it that these are non-resuseable fasteners... now in the begining of the manual I see that they list the botls as "Partially coated" "fully coated" fasteners. I also see not call out for a loctite in the spec. So I wonder do they have precoated bolts with a loctite/sealant on them. Tehre most definitely was something on these fastener. I mean its not that big of a money thing, more of a re-order and wait thing.

Just wonder if this is a Ford... we save 0.0002342432 seconds on the assembly line, so we have precoated fasteners and don't have to apply loctite, then we also say you need a new coated bolt in service for parts sales.

 

[Rapid Red]

I get it to, I work on aircraft, almost always replace self locking nuts, but bolts many bolts can be reused, onces that can't are not. I understand the physics of torqueing, over torqueing stretch to yield, stretch bolts etc....


I just find it that these are non-resuseable fasteners... now in the begining of the manual I see that they list the botls as "Partially coated" "fully coated" fasteners. I also see not call out for a loctite in the spec. So I wonder do they have precoated bolts with a loctite/sealant on them. Tehre most definitely was something on these fastener. I mean its not that big of a money thing, more of a re-order and wait thing.

Just wonder if this is a Ford... we save 0.0002342432 seconds on the assembly line, so we have precoated fasteners and don't have to apply loctite, then we also say you need a new coated bolt in service for parts sales.

Yes some do come precoated, and have had some come with the part ..

"Thinking about reusing driveshaft, and pressure plate bolts."

I would reuse those, replacing flywheel bolts is a wise choice .

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