Chassis Brace attachment
Discussion
Gentlefolk, 
I am about to replace my Chassis Brace with the 10 x 17mm Bolts that retain it.
These bolts come, in my case, with four spacers and 47 washers of varying sizes and thicknesses.
As you know, I’m no engineer
but I would have thought that all was needed would be a split washer and large washer between the Bolt Head and the Brace and then maybe a further ‘seperator’ washer between the brace and the chassis member.
I can only think that the spacers are to keep the Brace away from the exhaust but can’t, for the life of me, work out why there are only four. Have the previous ‘full set’ of spacers been lost and then a series of service teams replaced them with random washers to fill the gap ?
Your situations and thoughts would be most gratefully received
I am about to replace my Chassis Brace with the 10 x 17mm Bolts that retain it.
These bolts come, in my case, with four spacers and 47 washers of varying sizes and thicknesses.
As you know, I’m no engineer
but I would have thought that all was needed would be a split washer and large washer between the Bolt Head and the Brace and then maybe a further ‘seperator’ washer between the brace and the chassis member.I can only think that the spacers are to keep the Brace away from the exhaust but can’t, for the life of me, work out why there are only four. Have the previous ‘full set’ of spacers been lost and then a series of service teams replaced them with random washers to fill the gap ?
Your situations and thoughts would be most gratefully received
Mine had large nuts as spacers when came back from its last service it was just catching the lip of my drive /pavement i enquired with Raceproved who said they spaced the 'brace'(cat covers)as per last factory recall which was lower than originally fitted as some cars had caught fire when parked on dry grass due to heat transfer from cats.
They went on to say some owners/dealers/garages removed/lost/fitted washers smaller spacers and the like when removing the plates to facilitate service access. So now mine is fitted with slightly thinner nuts as spacers and i never park on dry grass
They went on to say some owners/dealers/garages removed/lost/fitted washers smaller spacers and the like when removing the plates to facilitate service access. So now mine is fitted with slightly thinner nuts as spacers and i never park on dry grass
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