Those do not appear to be what you might expect where a carriage bolt type head is used. They look more like they are for the same purpose as the star washers, to prevent the bolts from backing out. When the flanged bolt heads tighten down on the washers, the square bent part is flattened back out and bites into the bolt flange to help prevent backing out. If that is their purpose, they would go right against the bolt flanges.
Thank you! Yes, I've seen 'locking washers' similar to this before in my years of machine maintenance, but the strange thing is, these things look pristine clean, and the ears do not appear to be bent on them... the picture shows them just as I found them on the floor! Looking at the frame 'dirt/grease marks' they don't seem to have been there, since the washer head OD is bigger than the bolt head. Hence, my confusion. I cleaned up the bolts, no real sign of embedded ear marks. The indent in the panel fits the diameter of the flange. I can't imagine where else these came from, I only swept up a small area.
Yes, thank you Mike. I only think they came from this because I only cleaned up a small area of my work area and found them in the debris. But I cannot find anyplace they really seem to fit on this assembly, and they are pristine clean, whereas the bolt are rather grimy and dirty looking. And, like you mention, no where on the schematic are they shown. I apologize to all, I must have somehow mixed some other trash into my sweep up. Thank you for your time and input!
Heck you should see my floor out there I still have stuff from my snowmobile season last year!!!
I hear ya! I have been looking and racking my brain trying to remember what all I was working on before this, or during this while I am waiting on parts! You know, you never just have one project going on... I have yet to find the source of these parts tho. Apparently they are just 'extra'.Heck you should see my floor out there I still have stuff from my snowmobile season last year!!!
