>This isn't specifically a Vanagon problem, but the set up is real similar so
>I ask of the list the following question.  Friend of mine has a very nice 71
>Westy but the left rear axle nut comes loose every couple thousand miles
>despite havingthe cotter pin in there.  He's putting the 300+lbs. of torque
>on the nut but to no avail.  The axle is noisy making right turns when the
>eight is on that side of the van.
>
>My first guess is a bent stub axle or hub, but if those items are out of
>round when spinning, wouldn't that tear up the bearings too?
>
>He has no recollection of driving over anything that would've bent it, and
>he's cheap enough to not want to replace a bunch of parts not needed.  The
>only other wearing evidence is the castellated nut is grinding a cupped
>shaped pattern into the hub.

You shouldn't be able to bend the stub. I hit a tall curb straight-on in my
57, doing about 40mph at the time, and it broke the rear torsionbar. The
stub was fine.

Andrew Grebneff
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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