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I blew a front driver's side bearing the other day and proceeded to install a new one yesterday. I run RCV axles and this was going to be the first time I would be doing any maintenance work involving the axles since installing them in June.
I am figuring an hour to do the job. No biggie...right.
Well that time frame went out the window as soon as I removed the axle locking nut. In doing so all the threads in the locking nut were screwed and the threads on the axle were pretty much the same but only the leading half of the threads. The inner half of the threads, which would include about half of the nut's depth, were intact. By the inner or outer half I am referring only to the threads that the nut would cover and not all the threads on the inner axle. This renders the job at a stand still. I can assure you that the nut was not put on cross threaded. The damage appeared to be caused during the last several turns of the locking nut when first installed and by the nut's locking design.
Has anyone experienced this same issue?
I will be talking to RCV on Monday and would like to understand my position more clearly if there are more wide spread occurrences.
I don't have any pictures to assist in the understanding...I have already taken it to a machine shop and I didn't have a camera available at the time.
I am figuring an hour to do the job. No biggie...right.
Well that time frame went out the window as soon as I removed the axle locking nut. In doing so all the threads in the locking nut were screwed and the threads on the axle were pretty much the same but only the leading half of the threads. The inner half of the threads, which would include about half of the nut's depth, were intact. By the inner or outer half I am referring only to the threads that the nut would cover and not all the threads on the inner axle. This renders the job at a stand still. I can assure you that the nut was not put on cross threaded. The damage appeared to be caused during the last several turns of the locking nut when first installed and by the nut's locking design.
Has anyone experienced this same issue?
I will be talking to RCV on Monday and would like to understand my position more clearly if there are more wide spread occurrences.
I don't have any pictures to assist in the understanding...I have already taken it to a machine shop and I didn't have a camera available at the time.