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Subject:Re: 2.1 rebuild - new nuts for case halves
From:Frank Condelli
Date:Thu, 5 May 2011 05:33:24 -0400
I beg to disagree.  All engines I have rebuilt here get stainless hardware everywhere possible.  Never seen any problems related to the use of stainless hardware on the engine cases or elsewhere.  See here >  http://www.frankcondelli.com/21engpcs.htm

On 2011-05-05, at 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> I sure would not be putting any stainless fasteners on it.
> they are not as strong ..
> stainless is not titanium or 'fautless' like people  want to think it is.

Cheers,    

Frank Condelli
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