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Anyone recognize these fasteners ?? #3063083
07/27/22 06:56 PM
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I thought I was pretty diligent in bagging and labelling things as I took things apart on my '69RR but I still ended up with some miscellaneous hardware. Anyone recognize these items? The car was not 100% stock so these may not be original pieces.

The castle nuts look to be about 1/2". They could be for tie rod ends. The other things look like locking tabs but they're pretty thick to be bent to lock nuts and I don't recall any bolts that have the flat nor to I recall six of them.

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Those castle nuts are common on the front suspension. Could be tie rod ends or the idler arm. Bigger ones are used on the knuckles.

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The upper control arm adjustable bolt is halfed like those flat pieces. Maybe a type of shim. The washers for control arm cam are made that way. Just guessing.

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The upper control arm adjustable bolt is halfed like those flat pieces. Maybe a type of shim. The washers for control arm cam are made that way. Just guessing.


These would only take a 1/4 or 5/16 bolt.

Re: Anyone recognize these fasteners ?? [Re: Stanton] #3063180
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The lower picture looks like locking tabs for Hurst 4-speed shift rods when the rod ends back by the shifter are threaded for nuts. The D shaped hole makes them easy to recognize. That setup was nice because you could really dial out any slop where the rod adjuster connected to the shifter 1-2 and 3-4 plates. Once you tightened the nut to eliminate all play without binding, you folded over the locking tabs on that shim. Hurst discontinued them back at the turn of the century and replacements became scarce. I eventually had to switch back to the goofy clips and bushings when I had used up all of my replacement shim kits.


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The lower picture looks like locking tabs for Hurst 4-speed shift rods when the rod ends back by the shifter are threaded for nuts. The D shaped hole makes them easy to recognize. That setup was nice because you could really dial out any slop where the rod adjuster connected to the shifter 1-2 and 3-4 plates. Once you tightened the nut to eliminate all play without binding, you folded over the locking tabs on that shim. Hurst discontinued them back at the turn of the century and replacements became scarce. I eventually had to switch back to the goofy clips and bushings when I had used up all of my replacement shim kits.


I was thinking that too. If that's the case, I would have swapped them for nylocs. I'll have to dig the shifter out and have a look.

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The lower picture looks like locking tabs for Hurst 4-speed shift rods when the rod ends back by the shifter are threaded for nuts. The D shaped hole makes them easy to recognize. That setup was nice because you could really dial out any slop where the rod adjuster connected to the shifter 1-2 and 3-4 plates. Once you tightened the nut to eliminate all play without binding, you folded over the locking tabs on that shim. Hurst discontinued them back at the turn of the century and replacements became scarce. I eventually had to switch back to the goofy clips and bushings when I had used up all of my replacement shim kits.


I was thinking that too. If that's the case, I would have swapped them for nylocs. I'll have to dig the shifter out and have a look.


Can you post a picture of the shifter when you find it , I've never seen what is being talked about .


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Re: Anyone recognize these fasteners ?? [Re: JohnRR] #3063262
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This is the only picture I have from that setup. Unfortunately, you need a detail closeup picture from directly behind the shifter body to see how the nuts and bend-over tabs lock the shifter rod adjusters to the shifting arms hanging out the bottom of the shifter.

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