On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:10:07 GMT, Chad Irby
wrote:

In article ,
Mike Marron wrote:

But once again, doubtful the "brainy" types in St. Louis designed the
ECM pod fasteners to take shear loads in the threaded area
anyway (it is a bad practice to do this with any bolt, AN or
otherwise).

You can "doubt" all you want, but that's not how the damned things were
put together.

Thinking about bolts shearing I wonder if it could have been like
pylon sway brace bolts that would get worn. No visible damage to the
threads, but when you went to torque them down they wouldn't be tight
against the pod. With a pod because of the length you could shake them
and get a feel for a loose sway brace bolt. Maybe 3 bolts torqued up
tight to the plate and one a hair away from the plate would decrease
the load carrying ability enough to have a pod come off?

Wasn't something said about mechanics carrying bolts around?
I remember now we use to carry spare sway brace bolts and nuts in our
truck.