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Subject:Re: fancy front wheel bearing nut with clamp
From:Zoran Mladen
Date:Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:09:41 -0700

This fancy clamp is the same one used on all VW bugs after about 1965.� They 
work excellent, are easily re-moved and installed, and are reusable.� They are a 
very nice improvement over the Vanagon nut.

If you can find these...I would recommend them.� Of the thousands of bugs I 
worked on, I never heard of them coming off.� Of course, if you fail to tighten 
them...then they could.�

Z

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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Sun, March 20, 2011 7:48:50 PM
Subject: Re: fancy front wheel bearing nut with clamp

how to you figure 'more reliable' ?

there's nothing about the benz clamp nut that could be considered less than
a thousand percent reliable..

the only thing that could go wrong is the tech fails to tighten it, which a
tech could do with a vanagon crimp nut thing as well.
it's nigh perfect...the Benz front wheel brg nut.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: fancy front wheel bearing nut with clamp

> At 08:01 PM 3/20/2011, Vern in Bend wrote:
>>I don't like peen-unpeen stuff.
>
> Seems to me the setscrew system is prettier and easier but the
> peening system is more reliable.
>
> Yrs,
> d