For what ever it is worth don't use the red loctite unless you want to use a
torch to take the stuff apart. The Blue works great. To have the best result
use a primer (loctite makes it). Also use Loctite brand. There really is a
difference. You can get the blue in a stick (like chapstick), gel and
liquid. We sell the stuff at our company. I have been through a bunch of
their training.
Mike
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From: Bill
Babcock <billb@bnj.com>
To: Scott Janzen <s.janzen@comcast.net>
Cc: 'Friends
of Triumph' Triumph <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sat, October 17, 2009 8:50:37
AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] AN hardware and halfshafts
Probably the Nylocks. They
don't lock well against impact. I'd try
self locking AN with a hard washer,
or perhaps red locktite. No idea
why the rest of the stuff is working and
these aren't.
On Oct 17, 2009, at 8:42 AM, Scott Janzen wrote:
> My GT 6,
with a welded diff, has the halfshaft u-joints bolted to it
> with AN6
hardware. I was checking out various things under the car
> two events ago
and noticed that all of the bolts/nyloc nuts were about
> 1/8-1/4 turn loose.
I tightened them up, but after the next event
> they were about one flat loose
again. There's no way to get a torque
> wrench at these, given the proximity
to the diff and the u joint on
> the other end of the bolts, so I just give
them a good yank with hand
> wrenches.
>
> Question - are these stretching,
working loose (with nyloc), or are
> the AN washers, which I find to be fairly
soft, compressing? I really
> lean on the wrenches, so I am amazed the nuts
are loosening. I know
> the welded diff puts a lot of stress on the system,
but none of the
> hardware on the outer u joints or the drive shaft, all of
which have
> smaller hardware, is loosening, and the events I'm talking about
are
> only hillclimbs - not a lot of driving time at all.
>
>
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