[DeTomaso] the first day (NUTS!)Wheel bearings

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

The setup is normally such that the nut loosens with forward direction wheel rotation which indicates that your car has a RH thread on the left spindle, correct?

Tomas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: <guson at home.se>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] the first day (NUTS!)Wheel bearings


> 
> In a message dated 10/1/07 10 17 42, guson at home.se writes:
>> 
>> 
>> What seems to have gone wrong in Mike's case is that the washer between the 
>> nut and the bearing looks like it's begun to spin. Unless that washer comes 
>> loose there is no turning force on the nut and hence no shearing load on the 
>> nut. It's important to A: have a healthy tounge on that washer to fit the 
>> spindle axle groove and B: not have an oversize washer which flops around on the 
>> axle.
>> 
> 
>>>>That's exactly right.   In fact the tongue on that washer was stripped 
> away also.   Rotation of the bearing could thus spin the washer, which in turn 
> could turn the nut.
> 
> Curiously, the left spindle is reverse thread so that any unwanted rotation 
> would tend to tighten, not loosen the nut.   I can only assume that the nut 
> loosened while backing out of the garage, and then was loose for the whole drive 
> down to San Francisco?   Odd that there were no indications for over an hour 
> of driving though.
> 
> Mike
> 
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