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Re: [TR] torque tightening

To: dorpaul@bellsouth.net, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] torque tightening
From: MMoore8425@aol.com
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:46:33 EDT
In a message dated 8/25/08 8:54:45 AM, dorpaul@bellsouth.net writes:


> List,
> I am double-checking the torque values on nuts on my front suspension. 
Some
> nuts which originally had just been guessed at, and were originally set too
> high, are loosened and retorqued to the correct setting.  However, a couple
> that can't be reached are thought to be too high.  If that's the case,
> should
> I be concerned enuf to 'take something off so I can get to them?'
>
> Also, is a fresh nyloc nut that much better than a thick nut and
lockwasher?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Dorsey  60 TR
>

Paul
I used to design miitary equipment which had to pass shck and vibration
testing. I quikly discvered that if a nut and lockwasher got the least bit
loose,
they would soon fall off. Not so with an elastic stop nut. Even if it somehow
got lose, the nut and bolt will not separate.

Best, Mike Moore


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