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Date:         Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:43:08 -0800
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: nuts in steering linkage and rack
Comments: To: Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To:  <772DD76E-F7E4-4084-9178-73084BAF1939@cs.indiana.edu>
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They're probably "stretch to yield" bolts - lots of them in modern cars. Should be readily available at your local dealership.

On Dec 18, 2007 8:03 PM, Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:

> Well I'm not doubting what you say about not ever having a failure, > but there was SOME reason the engineers went to the trouble of > stating "always replace" on these particular nuts. They didn't just > toss that in there for fun. So, either they're a special single-use > design of some sort, or they are ordinary nuts but for some reason > they still should not be re-used. Maybe new ones come pre-coated > with thread-locker or something? > > I just looked at the ones I removed and they look absolutely ordinary > to me. I'll probably re-use them, but put some loc-tite on them just > to feel better. > > Allan > > On Dec 18, 2007, at 10:37 PM, Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote: > > > I guess I'm going to die just any day now when my steering nuts and > > bolts > > fail from being reused. > > Steering bolts and nuts are made extremely well. Steering is even > > more > > critical that brakes actually. I have put hundreds of those back > > together > > with the same fasteners. And I darn sure wouldn't be replacing > > original > > german parts with anything from a hardware store ! > > If you put them back together carefully and good n' > > tight.........the > > chance of them failing is nil. Unless you do something dumb like > > don't > > tighten properly, or extremely over tighten them etc. I might > > make a lot > > of things tighter than the published toques btw, sometimes they'll > > have like > > 18 ft. lbs on a bolt and that's not much at all. It depends. >

-- Jake 1984 Vanagon GL 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie" Crescent Beach, BC www.crescentbeachguitar.com http://subyjake.googlepages.com/


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