RE: Stake your axle nuts!

["David Utley" <fahrvegnugen@cox.net>]

If they are Nylock, I understand.  However, I personally have never had a
problem with reusing the squished nuts.  Rod bolt nuts, stub axle nuts,
exhaust nuts...  Only the later has gotten weaker, and even then they rarely
back off...  Again, in my experience...

David
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Fry [mailto:rocco16@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 10:25 PM
To: David Utley; Patrick Bureau; 'Scirocco list'
Subject: Re: Stake your axle nuts!

One is never to re-use lock nuts.
even though we do...
larry
sandiego16v


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Utley" <fahrvegnugen@cox.net>
To: "Patrick Bureau" <patrick.bureau@gmail.com>; "'Scirocco list'"
<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 6:44 AM
Subject: RE: Stake your axle nuts!


> Not to be the person to dissent, but I disagree.  There is no note in ETKA
> or Vesis about not reusing these, esp. if they are indeed a 'smashed' nut
> that locks in place...
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Patrick Bureau
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 8:59 PM
> To: 'Scirocco list'
> Subject: RE: Stake your axle nuts!
>
> Plastic? Not on the rear axled main nut.. it's a NON reusable compression
> nut.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org [mailto:scirocco-l-
> > bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of John S. Lagnese
> > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 5:34 PM
> > To: Mark F.; Scirocco list
> > Subject: Re: Stake your axle nuts!
> >
> > Did you re-use the nuts? Sometimes its worth giving them a fresh hit
with
> > a
> > chisel or some other item to compress the plastic.
> > John
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark F." <mk1mark@gmail.com>
> > To: "Scirocco list" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 12:43 PM
> > Subject: Stake your axle nuts!
> >
> >
> > > Well my friend Sean rang in the new year on the side of the highway
> > > broken down in his 85 8v.  He had the car towed to my place just after
> > > midnight, and we discovered that the axle nut had worked it's way
> > > loose and it looks like the hub/bearing is destroyed...  The weird
> > > thing is we just swapped out the hubs about a month ago with ones I
> > > had lying around, and I remember specifically torquing the axle nuts
> > > to the proper torque...  SO, I guess the lesson in all this is to
> > > stake the axle nuts - even though it's an "egg nut"...
> > >
> > > Mark - sick with the flu on New Year's  :(
> > > 75
> > > 80 S
> > > 81 Caddy - sold (whelp!)
> > > 90 Audi Coupe Quattro - 10vt
> > >
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