Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:55:48 -0800
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: nuts in steering linkage and rack
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I don't know about your VW stealership but mine would have a hard time
finding those bolts in the parts pictures and ordering them. NLA wouldn't
surprise me even. I don't think they are stretch type, but I'm not certain.
Liability and safety would be the obvious concerns.
'modern' ?? you're calling a 1980 to 1991 Vanagon 'modern' ??
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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Jake de Villiers
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:43 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: nuts in steering linkage and rack
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
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Crescent Beach, BC
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