Flywheel Bolts 76-88 trucks Trivia

[RuralRoute C-30]

Well I finally was ready to install a new clutch this week-end and thought I'd pick-up new flywheel bolts since I have gone this far. I was wrong.

Twenty miles away I have Advanced Auto, Autozone, O'Reilly's and NAPA to go to including a dealer. NONE of the 'bigbox' stores had the oem bolts to fit my 85 Chevy C-30 with a manual transmission and even suggested they didn't show as an order item. (Mr Goodwrench #912 packet, which no one had is supposed to be correct size if you can find them) Key to this search has been not the truck as much as it is a 'manual transmission'.

So today went to the dealer. None in stock and the only way to get them was to order and pay for a bag of 25 @ 1.09 per. Finally found a dealer 40 miles away with 7 on the shelf who has now sent them, bought all 7, to me via USPS.

Point here: If it is a simple inexpensive part you need that is equally as important as the more expensive parts on the truck chances are it will be the hardest to find or cost more in shipping than the part itself.

By the way: OEM Part #839756 Flywheel Bolt (all manual transmission trucks 1976-1988 and only years it was used)

Waiting on 6 bolts and then this project can move forward...but learning to laugh at all I am learning...today. With all the spare time waiting on odds and ends at least the undercarriage is restored to new!

Mark

[ont_guy_38]

Been there done that , sure is a pain isn't it

[mongoose]

any reason you wanted oem?

i'd rather of just got the 10 buck ARP set and headed home. but i'm also lazy.

[RuralRoute C-30]

Since none of the parts stores had even an aftermarket option, after a lot of run time looking for these, I figured why not just go with oem if I had to wait anyway. I even searched on-line on these stores web-sites. Jegs in Ohio stocks them...but the local NAPA on the web said they had them too...but they didn't on the shelf. Granted the web page said they were open on Sunday too and they weren't. At least I used the phone to discover that.

Helps to know I am not the only one who has gone through this. Thought it would be an easy find...and I was wrong.

It was hard to believe after all the running around I did Saturday to find in every one of those parts stores they all lacked stocking this one item common to a 350sbc. Hope I don't find any more of these hard to find parts!

Mark