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Old Jun 23, 2017 | 07:30 PM
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I was making some test and tune passes this friday night and on my 8th pass I lost a bolt. Does anyone have a guess where this came from? I've never seen a place for it while working under it. I took a quick peek underneath just to see if I could find some similar bolts but my eyes didn't find anything.
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Old Jun 27, 2017 | 10:16 AM
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Doesn't look like a factory bolt that I have seen. Wasn't a torque converter bolt I hope
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Old Jun 29, 2017 | 04:47 PM
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Car is a T56 with 194K miles on it. There is a possibility that it came from a previous car, but I assume it was mine. No mods done to the car either. I'm going to put it on a lift this weekend to do a more thorough investigation.
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Old Jun 29, 2017 | 05:35 PM
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That looks like the bolt that holds my diff cover on (T/A Performance Girdle).
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Old Jun 29, 2017 | 06:30 PM
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maybe a header bolt
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