Re: Stake your axle nuts!

["Larry Fry" <rocco16@sbcglobal.net>]

One is never to re-use lock nuts.
even though we do...
larry
sandiego16v


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Utley" <fahrvegnugen@cox.net>
To: "Patrick Bureau" <patrick.bureau@gmail.com>; "'Scirocco list'"
<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 6:44 AM
Subject: RE: Stake your axle nuts!


> Not to be the person to dissent, but I disagree.  There is no note in ETKA
> or Vesis about not reusing these, esp. if they are indeed a 'smashed' nut
> that locks in place...
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Patrick Bureau
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 8:59 PM
> To: 'Scirocco list'
> Subject: RE: Stake your axle nuts!
>
> Plastic? Not on the rear axled main nut.. it's a NON reusable compression
> nut.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org [mailto:scirocco-l-
> > bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of John S. Lagnese
> > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 5:34 PM
> > To: Mark F.; Scirocco list
> > Subject: Re: Stake your axle nuts!
> >
> > Did you re-use the nuts? Sometimes its worth giving them a fresh hit
with
> > a
> > chisel or some other item to compress the plastic.
> > John
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark F." <mk1mark@gmail.com>
> > To: "Scirocco list" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 12:43 PM
> > Subject: Stake your axle nuts!
> >
> >
> > > Well my friend Sean rang in the new year on the side of the highway
> > > broken down in his 85 8v.  He had the car towed to my place just after
> > > midnight, and we discovered that the axle nut had worked it's way
> > > loose and it looks like the hub/bearing is destroyed...  The weird
> > > thing is we just swapped out the hubs about a month ago with ones I
> > > had lying around, and I remember specifically torquing the axle nuts
> > > to the proper torque...  SO, I guess the lesson in all this is to
> > > stake the axle nuts - even though it's an "egg nut"...
> > >
> > > Mark - sick with the flu on New Year's  :(
> > > 75
> > > 80 S
> > > 81 Caddy - sold (whelp!)
> > > 90 Audi Coupe Quattro - 10vt
> > >
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