Crossmember bolts
 

Are there special fasteners to attach an auto x-member to the frame or will grade 5 bolts with lockwashers and standard nuts suffice?

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only use grade 5 bolts if you want your tranny to fall out .

use grade 8 bolts, nuts and locks.

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Im sure its the safe bet to tell people to use grade 8 bolts on everything but all Ive ever used on a trans x/member is grade 5's. Never lost one yet...corn

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Grade 5 will work just fine.

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Thanks guys. I appreciate it.

Stovebolt

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i'm not trying to be an a#$,but why take the risk. how much does a tranny cost, incomparison to 4-8 geade 8 bolts?

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In all reality, you don't even need grade 5. This isn't a structual piece, it's not load bearing, you are just keeping it from sliding around.
People go way overboard on grade 8 talk, and 99.9% of the ppl spewing that info don't know jack about gradr 5 , grade 8, or which to use in which aplication. There's plenty of times to use grade 5 where you'd be stupid to use grad 8 becouse a grade 8 could break. (yes, grade 5 is stronger in some ways)
I could go way into detail, but I won't, becouse all it does is make my fingers tired, then I'm flamed, called names, and then get BS in my PM box saying I'm a tool.

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:agree: ^^^^ I started to type a similar response but I stopped and erased it.

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That article has quite a few things that contradict what I learned in school, in the army (I was an M-1 hull mechanic) and the last 5 years in a heavy truck shop. I can't call BS on his figures, becouse I can't do that kind of math, but like I said, it contradicts most everything I have learned, and everywhere I learned these things had the same info.

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Heh, why don't you just use stainless.:lol: I'm KIDDING.

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Wow.... my in box is already taking a beating, and I will personally see to it that I respond to none of them.

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:haha:

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:lol:

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Good info there, well worth the time to read & learn.

Andy the M-1 hull mech, MOS 63E....me too, been there, done that, hate "DATS" aka: Dumb A55 Tankers. :hm:

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yep, i was a 63E with a H8 identifier for 7 1/2 years.
Been a PFC (Proud friggen civillian) for 5 years now, i don't know if all the armor has the computers now, but in my days at ft Hood we were testing the computers in the tanks, so we called our tankers CDATs... Computerized dumb ass tankers. ;)

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I did the M-88 Jockey thing for a while in Ft Polk, earned my Hotel-8 in the swamps busting knuckles on those old M-60 A3's. Went to West Germany in '87 and had to retrain for the A-1's. They are all just "STUMPS"...
Stupid Tankers Under Maintenance Protection.

DAT-DAT makes that sound... Crunch! Dat in my sprocket goes 'round and 'round:lol:

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LOL!!!
I did my H8 training at knox in Kentucky. They still have the old m60 tanks there. The junk is so bad there, I was dragging an M60A3 (I think it was an A3) and the sucker broke the track... not the 88, the 60! I was LMAO untill I was told we had to fix it and since there were no tankers around.... yep, we got to do it. :whine:
Stumps... I forgot all about that one!