[DeTomaso] oval locknuts

Dave Londry davel at emspace.com
Mon Jun 21 13:07:37 EDT 2010


It takes a little faith though Mike.
On the upside - if one backs off, the cylinder will go off and then miss 
before anything really bad happens.
dave

MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 6/20/10 21 49 34, davel at emspace.com writes:
>
>
>> During my cycles of re-installing the rockers on #6143 I've been
>> retiring the oval nuts each time.
>> I started to wonder about this and I see Wikipedia says
>> ""Due to the elastic nature of the deformation the nuts can be reused
>> indefinitely""
>> They are CompCams 1401N for 7/16 rocker-studs.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me about re-use.
>
>
> Yeah--Wikipedia!   :>)
>
> Mike



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