If you don't just replace them with M8 hex bolts...the new ones are $8
apiece, and you tighten them with an allen wrench until the head breaks
off.   I've got a pair right here that you could have for say half price --
I just keep them around to look at, my wheel has regular M8s...

david

At 00:50 6/18/2000, Marc Perdue wrote:
>I got the old shear bolts out with the good old vise grips.  I'd probably just
>go ahead and stick the old ones back in except for Karl's comments
>regarding the
>safety issue.  If I buy new ones, for safety's sake, what kind of a tool
>is used
>to tighten them up?  Do they have a regular hex head that twists off at the
>proper torque or something?

David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"