[Healeys] shock bolts

Bob Spidell bspidell at comcast.net
Tue Jul 5 16:23:06 MDT 2011


Richard, 

What works for me is a grade 8 flatwasher under the bolt head on the shock side and a split lockwasher on the chassis side. A little threadlocker can't hurt, either. 

Bob 

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Bob Spidell - San Jose, CA 

----- Original Message -----

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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