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993 Targa 'rim bolts'
- Thread starter AJOHND
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Steve - what steel spec did you ask Accu for? I made a custom request a few months back for high tensile steel bolts and nylon lock flanged nuts with a black finish but was told it was outside of their current manufacturing capabilities. I didn't take it any further at the time. Hopefully things have changed since then!
Aaron
I hope this is helpful - and good luck with Accu, I found a chap there called Dean Sladen most helpful.
Good Afternoon,
Thank you for your enquiry with Accu.
I’ve been able to review your custom component requirement. I’m sorry to say that we can’t currently offer the component you need.
We are constantly adding to our manufacturing capabilities and hope you continue to bear us in mind for future projects.
Let me know if I can help with anything else.
Thanks,
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I have no personal experience of splitting the rims - but I really would hesitate to do so unless you have a ready source of replacement rim bolts, to what is a pretty exacting spec. It took me absolutely ages to find Accu. Porsche or Speedline/BBS do not have stock. I had been advised that there was a high risk of the existing rimbolts potentially proving very difficult to separate, in view of the length of time that they had been in situ, in a pretty hostile (wheel) environment.
See posts (see posts #6-16)
Targa wheel repair - Rennlist - Porsche Discussion Forums
"Here's a video on how to remove it [Rim bolts]. Trick is, use lots of penetrating fluid to loosen up the nut. It is held in place with medium strength lock-tight, blue fluid.
Once enough oil gets in the threads, loosening them is easy."
(you need an email address and the video is about 15seconds long to watch...basically bash in and unbolt...)
The consensus seems to be M8x25mm, partially threaded with about 15-20Nm torque to tighten but you can't get hex rounded head. I would also be minded to add some threadlock just in case. It's very surprising that Porsche don't issue this info out for something that is pretty important to safety...they can sell you a part for pretty much everything else (although there are some things that don't show on the parts diagrams like the little plastic trim caps that go on top of the windscreen to finish the Targa trim strips!).
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Hi Shootetm, the wheels and bolts look great. Do I understand correctly that you had the wheels fully refurbished? If so, appreciate guidance on who did the work.Well as a means of closure on this, a sales guy at Accu (Joe Lockwood) got back to me last week to say they had in fact found the bolt design supplied to AJOHND and would still be able to manufacture them. Attached is the drawing design for the bolt which they developed. Minimum manufacturing quantity was 100, and so a quote for 125x bolts (24/wheel) was £500. In the meantime I had already decided to risk getting the wheels split with a local wheel specialist and I'm happy to say I got them back this morning with no bolt failures. New nuts, with threadlock, were used and torqued as per their normal procedure - attached is a photo.
Thanks
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