Stainless bolts to replace body mount rivets?

[ForgedCrank]

Afterthought,

I would not make a special trip to the pull apart to get a nut and bolt, but I always keep a vague awareness of how much stock I have in the shed of miracles. Then, when I have to go to the scrap yard for whatever, I’ll run around with the 20 amp impact wrench and a few wrenches, and fill up my toolbox. They don’t charge for the nuts and bolts.

All the hitches and receivers and heavier parts of the road Ranger, the step trailer, the casket trailer, the Missing Linc trailer, etc., etc.: 90% free scrapyard bolts.

Easy to get down here, we don’t have the problems.

funny, I do the same thing. I grab every flanged bolt or odd stepped-stud I can get my mitts on when I'm there. they get kinda spendy at the Ace Hardware

 

[P3x]

You raise a good point and remind me of a question that’s been on my mind for years. I’ve noticed that some OEM hardware - I usually see this on Asian cars - seems to have a coating that resists corrosion much better than typical stuff. It’s usually a sort of gold color, occasionally black, as though it were anodized, and weirdly the threads are usually a perfectly clean dull grey. I just saw this on a Hyundai - the bolt heads were heavily corroded but the threads and under the bolt head were brand new looking. Anyone have any idea what this coating/process is?

Probably Cadmium plated. Hardware used in the aircraft industry (AN, MS, NAS, etc.) uses this plating to prevent rust and corrosion over extended periods of time.