[DeTomaso] Screws for center console

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/6/14 7 02 47, grayjim at att.net writes:


> Seeing the nice shiny thumbscrews that hold in the center console on 
> 71-72 models advertised, I wondered:  Will these work on the later 73-74 cars 
> that have plain old phillips-head screws?
>   
>  Jim "just wondering" Gray 
> 
> 
>>>Answer--yes, because the thread pitch is the same.

The plastic panel on the later cars is countersunk, intended for a 
flat-head screw.   The mating surface of the early-style bolts will not match up to 
the surface on the panel, but you aren't torquing it to death so it doesn't 
really matter.

Mike
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