> stainless steel bolts on your muffler/catalytic converter.
>
> The more experienced among us know this already. I thought I'd beat the
> corrosion problem by using M8 stainless bolts and nuts for my new Bus
Depot
> cat and muffler. Once they heat up, there's no way to loosen them. I don't
> know what happens to the steel, but it sure isn't any labor saver. The
heads
> just break of when you crank them.  So much for good intentions.
are you serious last week I just replaced my header pipes on side of my 1.9
exhaust
and used stainless M8 on 12  bolt
now your saying each & every bolt head is gonna snap off if i ever try to
take em off:(

hmm is realy bcus the stainless has less tensile strength I think i heard
once ss is about = grade 5
what were the reg. bolts we remove grade 8 or 10 ??