on a bug the nut actually stripped and i ripped the spline grooves
right out of the brake drum.  didnt harm the axle at all though.  bug
didnt move at all when that happened.  had it towed to a shop because i
thought i had fried the tranny.  shop showed me what was wrong and said
loose nuts stripping the drum they had seen but mine was the first
stripped nut they had seen.
jimt
On Tuesday, Nov 12, 2002, at 15:02 America/Denver, David Beierl wrote:

> At 04:42 PM 11/12/2002, Stan Wilder wrote:
>> 260 Foot pounds .............. go to a Truck Stop that has a mechanic.
>
> Stan, that's for the 6-slot nut that is supposed to be discarded any
> time
> you touch one of these axles and replaced with the ten-slot nut
> torqued to
> 360 lb-ft/500 NM.  Apparently they were having trouble with people
> rounding
> off the splines or some such.
>
> david
>
>
>> Stan
>>
>> On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:10:02 -0700 Gnarlodious
>> <gnarlodious@CYBERMESA.COM> writes:
>> > My rear hub got a little loose. I took it to a place and they
>
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