I put my wiring and climate control back but now im looking at my dash and the weird L shaped tubing under it.. I don't have any bolts that look like the ones on the driver side which I didn't disassemble. I have two cars worth of bolts and I don't wanna guess which fasteners go where

Maybe you guys could help? Besides that there's like five more spots where I just can't tell which bolt belongs. When I rebuilt my engine internals I tagged and bagged everything, but I was lazy with my interior and **** and now im paying for it.

Having hundreds of bags of fasteners and brackets and parts sucks, what's your preferred method to prevent these frustrations?

'95 ej2, turbo d16Z6 swap, itr front suspension and brakes.

 

If it helps I could organization my bolts and post a picture but idk maybe someone remembers off the top of their head

 

I usually bag/tag, and take pics too. sometimes I may do a drawing to help.

Edd on Wheeler Dealers took that one step further and taped the bolt/screws to the drawing in the appx place they came off of.

For right now, take one of them loose, and see what it looks like, it may have a slot or champfer (sp) that helps it thread, or unthreaded part way etc..

Good luck tho!

you may also be able to tell by looking at the parts list and see what bolt size/length goes where.

 

I about confused about these too. They're for the bracket on the intake manifold/ block casting

 

This is the brace for the block to trans

 

Honestly the best I can come up with is freezer bags taped to part number labeled folders in a filing cabinet on wheels. It'l cut down on the total number of containers, get rid of the messy piles of bags and assembly will only require oem parts catalog diagrams on my screen along with all data or w.e.

The only upkeep supplies would be labels to slap on the folders

 

By far, and still the best way, is the old school way, bag and tag add pix and you can't go wrong.94

 

Some ideas...
Plastic Parts Drawers
Older Metal Variety
Older Lawson Fastener Drawers (The Problem with Lawson stuff is the price, spensive)

with these kinds of drawers, you can very easily sort by diameter, pitch and length....then just ezprint label or dymo label the compartments (this is assuming you want to organize your tons of hardware)...as for on the job, everyone has already listed any method I ever use, except that sometimes if i take a part out short term, I will wind the fastener back into the threaded portion of the part or the area it came from until i refinish it and/or then reattach it.

OH! and one of these little guys will save you much time.

 

The big metal draws suck I tried em didn't like em.

The plastic like draws aint too bad but I got big bolts that don't fit.

I'm gonna work on attaching wheels to a filing cabinet and figuring out the best way to fasten containers to the slidey rails.. the threading them back in part is good advice tho wish I didn't forget that it was possible to do that

 

I found more stuff to bolt into places on my civic and I guess if it fits it works im not worrying about grade or washers or design anymore. **** it

 

Sometimes you can get the part number from the fiche on one of the wholesale parts sites then google image search that number and you'll get a pic of the bolt. I've done it a few times for other stuff.

Home Depot has these HDX storage bins that you can setup the interior spaces however you want. They ROCK for OEM bolt storage!



I usually bag and tag as I got but I have a few of these well organized and filled with OEM bolts and bits from various part outs I've done. They always come in handy.