[DeTomaso] the first day (NUTS!)

[F&D Terry]

VW used this method for years.

Fred T.

Ken Green wrote:

>I've seen split spindle nuts with a screw across the split so they can be tightened to retain the spindle nut's position.  Does anyone know if that is a generally accepted solution?
>   
>  Ken
>
>MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:
>  Thanks Larry!
>
>Unfortunately I'll be spending my first day as a Lt Col thrashing on my 
>Pantera (and not behind the wheel).
>
>Yesterday was a beautiful day, and as PCNC had been invited to display their 
>Panteras at the free comedy festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, I 
>fired up my Pantera and headed that way. I have an old friend from college 
>who lives south of the city, so the plan was to pick him up and then join the 
>PCNC convoy to the park.
>
>The drive was perfectly normal until I exited the freeway near his house. 
>Suddenly there was a painful SCRREEEEEE noise from the left front, and the 
>steering jerked to the left, as though the left brake had applied itself.
>
>A second later it was fine.
>
>Huh?
>
>I continued along, and a few second later, the steering wheel jerked to the 
>left again, just for a second, and then all was normal. Or so it felt. But 
>I knew something was wrong. I was thinking that perhaps a bolt had fallen 
>out of the brake caliper or something?
>
>I very carefully limped the two remaining blocks to my friend's house, ears 
>cocked and fingertips on the wheel to feel anything untoward. Near his house 
>I heard a wocka wocka wocka sound from the left front.
>
>I pulled in front of his house, busted out his floor jack, raised the front 
>end and found the wheel flopping all around--deathly loose wheel bearing. I 
>pulled the wheel off, then the dust cap, and found this:
>
>http://members.aol.com/mikeldrew/nut.jpg
>
>The nut which secures the hub features a lip which is intended to be peened 
>into a slot milled into the spindle. The lip had shattered, allowing the nut 
>to back off until it hit the cotter pin, which is the only thing that kept the 
>whole assembly from falling apart.
>
>Note that most Panteras (mine included) don't come with provisions for a 
>cotter pin--under advisement from this forum many years ago, I drilled my spindles 
>and added them. I'm sure glad I did!
>
>In retrospect, I would have been better off inserting shims between the face 
>of the nut and the cotter pin, which would have prevented it from backing off 
>in the event of failure.
>
>Anyway, I tightened the nut a little, removed the cotter pin, then removed 
>the nut. The rotor/hub were sloppy loose on the spindle and I hoped that I 
>could simply withdraw them, change the bearing, and be back on my way.
>
>Unfortunately, when I pulled the metal retainer off and got a look at the 
>bearing, it looked pretty grim.
>
>http://members.aol.com/mikeldrew/badbearing.jpg
>
>The rollers in the bearing had literally MELTED and fused into solid masses 
>of metal. The inner portion of the outer bearing is stuck firmly to the 
>spindle. Fortunately the bearing had slipped outward from its proper location 
>about 1/4 inch before it happened, so the proper area of the spindle may be 
>untouched.
>
>I buttoned everything back up, and we took my buddy's Toyota to the comedy 
>festival. That evening I called AAA for the tow home (gotta love the 100-mile 
>tow program!); it took two and a half hours for the tow truck to arrive, and 
>it was another two and a half hours before I was home. I gingerly drove the 
>car onto and off the truck, and into the garage.
>
>Now I have to pull the spindle/rotor off, and I'm going to take it to Chris 
>Difani's barn where he will use a variety of sophisticated tools and techniques 
>to extract everything without damaging the rare and expensive spindle--I 
>hope!!!
>
>Mike
>
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