Re: nuts under hood

[Simon Favre <simon@domain.elided>]

This type of nut is commonly used on suspension parts where a cotter pin
is usually fitted. Some parts use self-locking nuts. If you check all the
suspension bits you had replaced, and they all have their own nuts, then
just toss these in the "extra parts" pile all Alfas seem to have. They've
probably been rattling around under the hood since the work was done.

Good ASCII art, BTW.

Chris Sasso wrote:

>I am hoping someone can help me identify the source of 2 nuts I found
>under my hood yesterday.  I opened the hood to check fluids and next to
>the rubber bumpers in the channel that the hood goes into were 2 nuts.
>They were shaped like a crown.  I have not done any work in a while.  The
>last work was when I had new springs, shocks, a-arm bushings, and control
>arms installed.        _   _   _
>They look like this:  | |_| |_| |
>                      |         |         
>                      |_________|
>The car is an 87 Spider.

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