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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Learned gentlemen,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>When I took the backing plates off the rear axle of my ’62 BT7 race car the four bolts each side had Nyloc nuts, with lock washers underneath.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>With the lock washer in place the top of the thread did not connect with the nylon – but it did with the washer removed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>The parts book shows just the bolts and nuts. It does not show any washers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>As the car was built in Hayward, CA, in the mid-seventies as a track car, there is much about it which is not standard.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>My questions are: <o:p></o:p></span></p><ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Are the Nyloc nuts correct and, if not, what should be there?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Is it correct to have no washers under the nuts? I would have though it correct to have at least a thin flat washer, even though the parts book appears to show none.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Mark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Ardmore<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>NZ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><img width=182 height=68 style='width:1.8916in;height:.7083in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.png@01D862C6.2D7A0E10"></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>