[Healeys] shock bolts

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 16:09:05 MDT 2011


Richard -

I tried all sorts of things and finally discovered that if I simply
tighten the nuts (with a spring washer underneath) to about 80-ft lbs
of torque or more (i.e. hella-tight) they'll never come loose.

Alan


On 7/6/11, Richard Kahn <tahoehealey at hotmail.com> wrote:
>  I have a clunk in the rear of my car. It has been there two years, since I
> replaced my rear shocks. The 1800 miles to Rendezvous made the problem
> worse.
> On inspection, the nuts holding the shocks were only hand tight. I am having
> a
> tough time keeping the rear shocks from coming loose on my BJ8. I have split
> ring lock washers on now but they keep needing to be tightened. I tried a
> second nut on each bolt a while ago but that does not work any better. Has
> any
> one tried a split rind lock washer on each side? How about star washers? I
> am
> sending one unit back cause the holes are too large.
> Thanks
> Richard Kahn
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