Re: Stake your axle nuts!

["John S. Lagnese" <jlagnese@massed.net>]

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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