My driver side rear wheel nut had been loosening up on my everytime I
drove the car. I ended up cranking it down as tight as I possibly
could...including with a cheater bar! For now that seems to have solved
the problem.
Dan
'64 Das Boot
DavidC wrote:
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> We all know it has to be very tight but anyone guess a figure ? I seem
> to remember it needing to be well over 100lb/foot ?
> Also anyone use a nylock instead of a split pin ? Hole for split pin
> always seems to line up for me in the wrong place and I don't want to
> go really really tight but then slackening it slightly for split pin
> to fit seems a bad idea as well. Maybe I just have to file the face of
> the nut ?
> David C
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