hardness of the bolts for radius arms

hi,
I saw you have changed the bolts of the bushes ( for your radius arms ), cause those from suzuki are not good:

i would like to put like this: ( picture from Martin )

But what are their hardness???
Have you put 10 or 8,8 ????

( those from zuzuki are 10 )

Thanks for reply ( and i hope you will understand my very bad english :blush: )

Hi Renard
Your English is just fine - I wish I had the same amount of French! Anyway I use grade 8.8 in my Jimny and so far no problem. They are quite big bolts and the shear loading is huge so I think it very unlikely they would ever break.

I also used 8.8 as well

Martin

thanks a lot

Have you all been using bolts that are threaded their whole length?

I've been getting genuine £3.00 odd each Suzuki bolts as I could not find any others with the shank the right length and worried the thread would wear into the tube of the bushes - as I have seen happen to shock bushes on Landrovers when they used a bolt threaded the whole way.

I have been regularly removing each bolt and re-greasing them to stop them seizing and using thead locked nuts. Then I'll not have to buy new ones again!

Kirkynut