Tudor clinch nuts

ropat53

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Could anybody tell me how many clinch nuts of each size are needed on a 1930 Tudor body?
I'm restoring a 1930 Tudor Delivery in Buenos Aires-Argentina and would like to order all the body hardware together, I still haven't finished taking the body apart, so I can't count them and what's more many have fallen out with the surrounding sheet metal.
This is the car
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By you saying "clinch nut", are you speaking of a 'D'-nut used in the subrail, --or used somewhere else? Please explain exactly where you are referencing and I will see if I have some pics to help you with. Also understand, could your body be different with the quantity of clinch nuts because of the export model?
 
Brent
Yes I mean the D nuts in the sub rails and any other I haven't noticed. Rear fenders??
I don't expect anybody to know the required nuts in an export Tudor Delivery, I'd be quite content with the amount needed in a regular Tudor.
According to "How to Restore Your Model A" Volume 2, only two different threads are used, 10/32 NF and 12/24 NF and most are 10/32 NF, no total quantity is mentioned. If these two threads are the only ones used in Model A's, why do vendors offer 1/4, 5/16/, 3/8 and 7/16 clinch nuts? Brattons offers: "D-Shaped brass nuts that are peened in place to hold a machine screw.
12/24 nuts for 1928?31 floorboard, 1930?31 gas tank, generator cutout wire clip on firewall and speedometer cable to firewall clip"

I know for sure the floorboard nuts are not brass and I can easily count these, it's the hidden or missing ones I'm worried about, on the other hand the doors I'm not worried about, because I presume most will be usable, with only a few to be replaced.
The Tudor Delivery obviously doesn't have the rear mounted spare, so that eliminates those D nuts.
Thanks
 
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