Having installed a couple of these kits I found that carriage 
bolt to be of poor quality myself. I replaced it with a 10.9
bolt from my parts bin. It's a nice product still and worth
installing. 

Bill

On Jun 14, 2012, at 12:15 AM, pickle vanagon <greenvanagon@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> GoWesty makes this nice kit to beef up the alternator bracket connection:
> http://www.gowesty.com/ec_view_details.php?id=4454&category_id=&category_parent_id=
> 
> The carriage bolt that comes with the kit seems to be a very low grade.  I
> stripped the threads on mine very easily.  And multiple people at thesamba
> have had issues as well:
> http://www.gowesty.com/ec_view_details.php?id=4454&category_id=&category_parent_id=
> 
> (GoWesty was very nice about replacing my bolt but said the hardness was
> not an issue even though it was perhaps only class 4.8 or so,