[Fot] AN hardware and halfshafts - Loctite comment

[rodkent at cox.net]

It's worth using the red for the additional grip, no problem taking apart if you hit it with a little heat first. 
---- Mike Mehl <mike.mehl at yahoo.com> wrote: 
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 at bnj.com>
To: Scott Janzen <s.janzen at comcast.net>
Cc: 'Friends
of Triumph' Triumph <fot at 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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