Overwhelmed By Price

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edited November -1 in HUDSON
Hi all,---Yesterday I stopped by a NAPA store & priced 4" X 7/16" stud for use on the 254 eights. I could not believe my ears when the clerk told me the cost of $8.00 each stud & had to be purchased in boxes of 6. It seems as though I am living in the past whenever I go to the store now days, but this is simply outrageous.---Cliff Minard.

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  • hudsonguy
    hudsonguy Senior Contributor
    You can alway mail order them from McMaster Carr. It looks like they're closer to $3 each there.



    http://www.mcmaster.com/
  • Aaron D. IL
    Aaron D. IL Senior Contributor
    Even $3 a stud is still too much...you'd think something as mass-produced as nuts, bolts, screws, and studs should be cheap! That adds up a lot when you consider there's 6000 parts that make up a step-down. Probably it's in part because a lot of the USA's machine tooling got sent to China and there's probably 5 middle men between there and the store. Just goes to show....don't throw anything out until your project is finished! sandbalst the old nuts and bolts if they're still usable.....save em off the parts cars too. LOL
  • rambos_ride
    rambos_ride Senior Contributor
    Those gotta be grade 8 studs then? I don't think you want to skimp on quality for that part of the application!

    Its hard to get a handle on prices of anything right now! Lean hamburger @4.99lb and 3.00 for a can of freakin Chilli?

    Don't get me started on the price of beer, gas and floozies!
  • Aaron D. IL
    Aaron D. IL Senior Contributor
    "Sure professor that's all great but what does this have to do with the high price of getting laid ?!" LMAO
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Thanks to all who responded to my post on high prices. Hudsonguy, I have e-mailed McMaster-Carr.---Cliff Minard.
  • TwinH
    TwinH Senior Contributor
    I got mine from ARP (Automotive Racing Products), a manufacturer of quality

    racing hardware. No offshore stuff here. If I recall it was about $120 for studs,

    washers and nuts for my 308. Mine were longer(for the Clifford head) but I

    believe there available in 1/4" increments. Good enough for a top fuel dragster

    engine that gets torn down after every run and I've had no leaks on mine.

    I even splurged for some chrome acorn nut covers from nightprowlers to dress

    it up...



    Went to Napa for a water pump for my 300 Ford six. You guessed it,

    Napa's finest with a made in china sticker on it.
  • Geoff
    Geoff Senior Contributor
    I agree that the prices are high, but re-iterate that these things have been under tension for over 50 years, and are by now likely to be chrystalised, and likely to break. Don't fool around with old bolts and head studs. And you can at least buy them over there. Try getting that sort of thing here in N.Z. and you just get the good old blank "do you want fries with that" look.

    Geoff.
  • essexcoupe3131
    essexcoupe3131 Senior Contributor
    Geoff you could always try MSL in Auckland 09 8282777 you would be surprised what these guys have in there stock and only a phone call away I now they carry a extensive range of hardened nuts and bolts not certain about grade 8 but for 50 cent call

    or Segedins in Dominion Road Auckland 09 6386439 carry ARP stock or will get it for you, talk to Shane hes the Man

    Regards Mike
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Cliff, I agree that it's no fun to put up with high prices like that but have you seen what the price of a new wiring harness has gotten to ?!!! I guess that you could say that its a good thing headbolts aren't made out of copper. Welcome to the world economy. Ain't living in a global village grand?
  • Aaron D. IL
    Aaron D. IL Senior Contributor
    the price of copper has tripled in the last year. So much so that I heard on public radio that People have been stealing the copper plumbing out of houses and buildings and that thugs are even stealing bronze statues off of momuments that have a high copper content and sending them overseas to be melted down!
  • SamJ
    SamJ Senior Contributor
    Aaron D. IL wrote:
    "Sure professor that's all great but what does this have to do with the high price of getting laid ?!" LMAO



    Yeah, Aaron, but how do you think the ladies feel about the high price of a good stud?
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