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Old 05-02-08, 11:05 AM   #6
BC40
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To add to that make sure the mounting surface of the hub is smooth/no rust. Hit it with a wire brush to be sure.

I wonder about the use of red locktite for this application. The red locktite is supposed to be permanent. If the aluminum seats did wallow out due to bad machining of the cone or whatever, the nut would stay in place on the stud. That would give a false torque as it would appear the fasteners were tight when they were not. To continue to function as a thread lock, each nut would have to be removed, thread cleaned, and the locktite would need to be re-applied prior to retorquing.

I use a 3/4" sandwich spacer with longer studs on my rear FF. I use antiseize and retorque after each wheel removal. So far I've never seen any symptoms of an imminent problem like lug nuts coming loose.


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