Re: ITS BACK!!

[Richard Fenton/Shannon Fenton <ldfen1@lisco.com>]

SHAWN C MEZE wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 16 Sep 1997 11:40:22 -0700 Richard Fenton/Shannon Fenton
> <ldfen1@lisco.com> writes:
> 
> >Jacked her today and guess what, I could about pull the wheel off the
> >shaft. I retourqued it and thought happy thoughts about all who helped
> >me from the list when.....wait a second what's that....its back. Went
> >back home carefully and raised it up again(mental note: buy a floor
> >jack) and sure enough its loose.
> >Im torquing it to spec form Bentley, would i damage it if i hit with
> >the impact wrench? Or is there something deeper going awry?Thanks.
> >
> >
> >shannon
> >87 16V
> 
> ARGHHHHH!!!!!!  Those lousy assholes! THEY are the ones who can buy you a
> new set of wheel bearings and THEY are the ones who can reinstall them
> for you. Like I said before, if the wheel bearings are not torqued
> properly, the wheel bearing will be junk the minute you drive on it. (It
> may not make noise right at the moment, but it will prematurely fail on
> you, trust me.
> 
> If I were you, id loosen the nut up to about where they left it and take
> it back and complain to them about how they simply forgot to do the most
> important step in replacing the bearing.
> 
> If you choose to not take it back, then you can just torque it yourself.
> Heres a hot tip for you on the axle nut torque. You CAN'T over torque
> that nut. Its darn near impossible. The racers usually get the biggest
> cheater bar they can find and they get a couple people to stand on it to
> get them as tight as they can. I think that's a bit much but i do use a
> 4' cheater bar and torque it as tight as I can get mine.
> 
> Its odd that yours has come loose even after you have torqued it. Odd!!!
> 
>               Shawn Meze
> 86' Jetta GLi           82' Scirocco GTi
> The Fastest, Quickest, Cleanest and
> best looking Scirocco in all of San Diego!
> http://www2.netcom.com/~trnsfrma/vws.html
so it would be a bad thing to hit with a impact wrench? A friend of mine
said they did that to his cabriolet and they pulled the threads on the
nut. But if you cant overtourque it than why would the impact wrench
hurt ?Thank you for all your help, my car is slowly becoming devoid of
all the problems i havent had the money to do.



shannon
87 16V
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