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Re: [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut

To: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut
From: Oudesluys <coudesluijs@chello.nl>
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:00:39 +0200
Sorry for my ignorance, but what are Belleville washers?
Kees Oudesluijs
NL


Bob Spidell schreef:
> Sounds reasonable.  Split lockwashers gouge into the aluminum casting, 
> thus relieving some of the tension on the bolt.  Belleville washers 
> make more sense--if they're a larger diameter you're also applying 
> more clamping force, just like a hardened flatwashwer.  The spring 
> load would keep tension on the bolt, keeping it from loosening (like 
> the locktite).
>
> My objection to drilling out the shock mounting holes for oversized 
> bolts is that you're removing metal from the already crack-prone 
> mounting flange.
>
>
> bs
>
>
> Steve B. Gerow wrote:
>> FWIW - my car has 3 10mm x 1.5 bolts added by a PO and I've been 
>> using spring steel belleville washers under all the shock bolts for 
>> years - no loctite and none of them has ever loosened.
>>
>>
>
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