Hi Mike and Stephen, yes I thought the nyloc half nuts would have a
better chance of staying in place also. It's probably worth saving the
castellated nuts of old units if the repros have the same thread. I
didn't check that. Probably not easy to get them these days. They
certainly never came off.
Cheers
Larry
On 16/01/2013 5:05 AM, Michael Salter wrote:
> I discovered that problem a few years back and the only solution that
> I could figure was to install nyloc thin nuts if staying with the
> repop pins.
> Seemed to work fine as I don't think there is very much axial load on
> those special bolts.
> Raced a few events like that and things seemed to stay in place.
> Eventually I changed them all for good used parts with the castellated
> nut and split pin..just seemed safer.
>
> Michael S
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Larry Varley <varley@cosmos.net.au
>
> Hi Guys, I suggest you check your front lower suspension arm inner
> pivot nuts, after seeing 2 cars have the special bolts come out
> after the nuts had worked their way off in a short space of time.
> It seems the reproductions with nylok nuts are a bit short on
> thread and the nylon doesn't bite in, rather than the castellated
> nut and split pin used on the originals. A few minutes with a
> spanner could save a disaster.
> Cheers
> Larry Varley
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