Brass Nuts (1 Viewer)

[Cruiser_Nerd]

All the small hardware on this '62 I'm stripping has brass nuts! They're original, but has anyone else run across this? The 25's had all steel nuts........later 40's were all steel.....makes it easy to disassemble...........just snap 'em off. Just curious what years Toyota upgraded to brass.

 

[FJnotCJ]

You must have something very rare and special...put it back together! I've never seen anything like that, but I'll check my '62 next time I'm home...

 

[foxfab]

yep A-1's 6mm and smaller nuts are all brass too it seems. You wouldnt know it until they get into the bead blaster.

 

[Toy Teacher]

Jim,
All the small nuts on my 1962 FJ40 are also brass.

Don

 

[Cruiser_Nerd]

Hmmm, maybe I just never noticed on the 25's. Or the hardware isn't original.

 

[Living in the Past]

I think over the years I've come across brass nuts on some old cruiser but figured they were owner replacements for rusted out ones. Now I have to check my two early 40s. I let you now what I find.


John

 

[pardion]

I think over the years I've come across brass nuts on some old cruiser but figured they were owner replacements for rusted out ones. Now I have to check my two early 40s. I let you now what I find.


John

On 1965 and earlier fj---cruisers you will find these brass nuts, mainley the 6mm ones on everything from hood latches,fender apron to fender,fender to body,shift instruction plate to glove box door, ( 4mm) POCKET handle to glove door and ash tray handle to cover, larger nuts of coarse on the intake exhaust manifold to engine, head pipe, solenoid connections,coil, and battery posts. My 1960 was torn apart so quickly that I did not look at the nuts. John Pardi

 

[pardion]

Thought I'd bring this tid bit of info back to the top. John

 

[1969FJ]

Perhaps Toyota was smart to do that. Steel on steel over time seems to weld together. Maybe brass on steel is a natural ant-seize.

 

[HelloKitty65]

I've seen that the nuts holding the top of two '64 FJ40's to their corrugated sides were brass.

 

[65swb45]

Perhaps Toyota was smart to do that. Steel on steel over time seems to weld together. Maybe brass on steel is a natural ant-seize.

This is SO true with the exhaust head pipe, subjected to repeated heating and cooling.