Technical What is this part called? It holds 10mm bolts on the engine cover.

[OneHundredPandas]

I was removing my engine cover, and I had to remove 3 10mm bolts, but I lost 1 of the 3 things below in the process. I have asked around and don't know what this part is so I cannot replace it. Any ideas?

 

[koalar]

Looks like part of the airbox


I don't think fiat ever supplied them seperately


Might be the same as some other fiat models, fairly sure the other petrol panda ones would swap over


I think I have seen some new third party ones for the 500 somewhere

 

[Jamie KC]

Head to the scrap yard to see if a similar Fiat model is there to rob parts from.

You may be able to use a rivet nut in its place if you find an appropriately sized one. You’ll just be using it as a nut rather than drawing it in to be secure like a rivet.

Other options may be a socket joint nut, or poss a cylindrical jack nut, if the right thing can’t be found.

 

[bugsymike]

It looks to me like a stepped spacer used where a rubber gasket or mounting shouldn't be over tightened/squashed but a nut or bolt has to be secure.
If that is the case a short piece of tube and suitable washers using one of thje others as a pattern, could do the same job though a bit more fiddly.

 

[varesecrazy]

I was removing my engine cover, and I had to remove 3 10mm bolts, but I lost 1 of the 3 things below in the process. I have asked around and don't know what this part is so I cannot replace it. Any ideas?

I feel your pain..
We "somehow" Lost a glow plug in a similar fashion... And nobody stocked them..
So we spent 2 hours with a mirror.. And found it on the rear of the motor sat in a void

So what Panda is this..?

I recognise the type of 'washer'... am also thinking "airbox".. or other plastic moulding..
Were the other 3 also 'loose' ?

 

[varesecrazy]

I see you had asked, for a100HP
"how do I remove the engine cover"

Plenty on here have tinkered with old HP's.... doing intake mods etc

Somebody will have an unused one lying around

I will check the engine cover I have sat in a shed (from a Diesel..). Probably identical hardware on them...

Where are you based?

 

[koalar]

Looked quite hard and couldn't find any


It's part of the airbox and not shown as a seperate part

Third party rubber such as these are available on ebay and it's likes

I have never tried one but 1.2 fiat 500 looks very similar, here a shot from the underside of a 500, breakers might be the easiest

This guy has a 100% feed back, might be worth messaging him with some photos

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[AndyRKett]

I'm not sure someone breaking a car is going to want to start pulling individual small parts like this off some bigger part like an air box for the few pennies they could make selling them to you, to the determent of a whole air box that is worth a few quid.

I'd be inclined to do as Bugsymike says above and look at just getting a similar diameter piece of metal tube from a hobby shop or online and cutting it to length.

The actual description for something like this is a "Flanged Bushing Sleeve" so whack that into Ebay and see what you come up with.