Long, long ago, approaching a city far, far away I felt the rear end of the
car had got a bit squirrely. Investigation through the spokes determined
that the hub nuts had backed off. Before I caught it, some of the threads
had been worn off the studs by the loose hub adapter. After tightening up
the nuts we made it home, but some time later I started hearing unusual
noises from the wheel and found the nuts loose again.
The original problem was probably caused by reusing the self-locking nuts
too many times, or not torquing them to the correct value. Although I
replaced the nuts with new ones, I still would occasionally hear noises when
the wheel was turning slowly, and I knew it was time to re-torque the nuts.
After a couple cycles of this, it was obvious that I needed to replace the
studs as well as the nuts. One of the studs broke off as I was removing the
nut, probably due to the Lok-Tite I used last time.
By the way, I've never had a problem with the studs/nuts on the right side
wheel. The hub has never loosened, the studs have never worn, but I did
replace the nuts on that side, too. Tomorrow, I'll be making sure that I've
torqued the right-side nuts to 70 lb-ft.
Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC USA
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Stephen Hutchings
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:26 AM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Rear hub studs and nut
Hi Steve,
I'm curious; what led to you replacing those studs? Damaged threads?
I have heard the odd story of these studs failing, over the years.
Stephen, BJ8
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