Hi all, just getting ready to collect my gearbox and bolt it to the engine, can anyone tell me what bolts to use and who supplies them,if anyone, are they metric or imperial, please don't say scrapyard.
1300 Randall for locost. 4 speed escort box
Regards Steve Evans.

Scrapyard??

Umm i should imagine that they are M10 if its the same as a pinto...and knowing ford it will be. Available from any industrial fixing supplier. Grade 8.8 or better will be plenty. All you need to do is work out the length...

David

A bolt is a bolt and i wouldnt use old ones from scrap yards. Have you not got a local engineering or fastening specialist that can help you? I get them for pennies from Westgate Fastenings locally (Lowestoft).
The motto is if you dont ask you dont get.
Steve

try www.namrick.co.uk

It's imperial into the x-flow engine block - can't remember the size just at the moment, but 7/16" UNC rings a bell. Whatever it is, UNC is easy to get from places like Namrick.

Very confusing if you're strapping a type 9 box to the x-flow, 'cos it's imperial into the block and metric into the bellhousing!

David

Yes David Jenkins nailed it, the xflo being 100% Ford of Great Britain design is all UNC and UNF threads.

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Originally posted by britishtrident
Yes David Jenkins nailed it, the xflo being 100% Ford of Great Britain design is all UNC and UNF threads.

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........And whitworth is still amongst the best designs of bolts / threads there has been.

If you look at some of the current speciallist aero bolts they look remarkably like the old whitworth...............