Which body bolt kit is best? Or use oem refurbished
 

Has anyone who has done a full restoration use a bolt kit from a aftermarket supplier? Or refurbish bolts? Anyone making correct bolts in correct finish ans markings?

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Like many of you I used to have all the fasteners recoated, plated when doing a frame off. It was sometimes difficult to get the right finish and you still had a few buggered up bolts in the end, and sometimes had a hard time figuring out where something came from. In my neck of the woods platers are getting far a few in between and the cost is skyrocketing. The last 2 frame offs I’ve done, mid year corvettes, I used the kits. Correct fasteners for all locations, all the correct markings in the factory correct coating and you know exactly where every piece goes. Not sure if that’s the same with these truck kits but IMHO, the kits are the way to go, and I will be using a kit on my next truck.

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Never had an issues with Eckler's other than occasional slow shipping speed. I got my bolt kit, for my Chevelle, from them years ago. Everything was good quality.

Re: Which body bolt kit is best? Or use oem refurbished
 

Ecklers looks like a nice kit and if in factory finishes that would work. Anyone else want to chine in?

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It appears to me most of the fastener kits are one proved by amkproducts.com and the others vendors are resellers.

Below is a link to the 1972 Chevy C10 kit.
https://www.amkproducts.com/master-k...s&element=Body
The master kit has 469 pieces and costs $275

I purchased my kit from AMK and it was pretty darn good. I did find a few mistakes and they promised to fix them in future kits.
The fact they are not located in China was appreciated as was they actually answered my email.
Quote from their site;
"Chevrolet is as American as apple pie. We know that at AMK and pledge to produce a minimum of 80% of the fasteners used to make our Chevrolet fastener kits right here in America, currently we are exceeding 82% USA made content."

Some times the resellers are less expensive than getting directly from the manufacture. I'm not sure in this case. However, the web site does give good pictures and explanation of what is in each kit which I doubt in included in the resellers web sites.
cheers.

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I use the kits made by Woodall, sold by Southern Kentucky classics.

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For what all you get in the master kit, that price doesn't seem terrible. I've spent hours cleaning old bolts and then I still have to have them coated or I have to paint them. Those new bolts sure sound appealing. Are the markings nearly the same?