At 03:22 AM 3/27/2012, Roger Whittaker wrote: >and lastly there is an admonition in bently stating if my vanagon is made >prior to 25ZBH1192362 >and my van is WV2ZB0255EH023522 which i assume is after 1192362 ... then i >must install new sleeves & axle nuts & torque nuts to 500 Nm Translation: if your axle nuts have six castellations you're supposed to replace them with stronger nuts having ten castellations and torque them to a much higher value than the old ones will stand. I infer they were having trouble with the driving splines on the axle slipping in the hub. Without looking in Bentley though, I believe you only have to do that if you're removing the nuts anyway. Yours, David |
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