Suspension bolts replace

[BigTaco]

I would replace them. It’s not that big of a deal and it will give you piece of mind down the road. The “savings” of re-using the bolts is negligible.

 

[Grant 302]

Nothing wrong with replacing them. Nothing wrong with reusing a perfectly good and 'proven' fastener.

 

[BigTaco]

I hear you Grant, but the standard for proven is not High enough to assume the risk (to me), if that makes sense...

 

[Grant 302]

And that's perfectly fine. Nothing wrong with that in practice, like I said. We all make our own risk choices.

I've used a tensile testing rig and I know there are sample variations. 'Proven' under my use and anything short of a massive collision or off track excursion and I would generally re-use *any* non-TTY bolt. If the threads are clean and there is no visible sign of deformation, necking or otherwise, and camber settings don't mysteriously go out-of-whack, I'll reuse it.

But a new fastener from the bin...no idea if you happen to get one with a defect. Sure, that's not likely or probable. But in any materials testing, I've found outliers that fail earlier than expected.

Any of these bolts would have a problem staying tight and maintaining the camber setting long before failure. There's a lot of fear about this on the internet along with the TTY misinformation. That's probably not gonna change.

 

[TMSBOSS]

Good advice, on both.

TTY, junk when removed. Bolts with one time use thread locker. Inspect and reuse with locktite after pass.

I have reused suspension bolts too many times to dump after one use. Change a wheel seal and the track bar comes out. Not buying new bolts for that.