Rear stub axle.
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:43 pm
It?s a little disconcerting when your back wheel overtakes your front wheel. A quick change of underwear is needed. Initial cause appears to be that the garage who changed the wheel bearings for me failed to correctly torque the nylock nut holding on the wheel hub.
However while checking for damage I noticed that the wheel spinner (passenger side rear) tightens anti-clockwise and the nylock nut holding on the hub tightens clockwise, is this correct? The workshop manual and the parts manual are not very clear on this point. If anybody currently has the rear hubs off of their car I would very much appreciate it if they could double check this for me and let me know if it's correct.
Also if anyone has fitted the rear hubs themselves did you use thread-lock as well as relying the nylock nut? What do you racing guy?s do?
Colin
However while checking for damage I noticed that the wheel spinner (passenger side rear) tightens anti-clockwise and the nylock nut holding on the hub tightens clockwise, is this correct? The workshop manual and the parts manual are not very clear on this point. If anybody currently has the rear hubs off of their car I would very much appreciate it if they could double check this for me and let me know if it's correct.
Also if anyone has fitted the rear hubs themselves did you use thread-lock as well as relying the nylock nut? What do you racing guy?s do?
Colin