Adding tightness

[horizenjob]

I am curious about some of the notes here. It's a good idea to check nuts and bolts, but it shouldn't be required very often. Surely the vast number of cars on the road don't receive this treatment. And there's quite a few crucial nuts not being examined on the lists here, connecting rods, drive shaft and transmission bits for example.

 

Yellowss7 said "The Nylocs had come loose on Both upper A Arm bolts. Other side had also come loose." I wonder if you found a cause for this. If it was me, I will admit likely cause would be not being properly tightened in the first place. But another cause could be repeated use of the nyloc nut. They must be discarded once they no longer require firm wrenching to put on. The root cause here is the safety issue, not repeated checking.

 

So checking your nuts a good thing, occasionally . More importantly, developing an ability to see your car and look at different things at different times, so that your seeing things with a fresh mind - so to speak. I have found wrenches, cracked disks, cracked frames, wear and abrasion on critical items, broken motor mounts, and drive shaft joints.

 

Learning to look at your tires as you approach your car ( all of your cars ) is a big deal. That can change every time you drive the car!

 

When I ran a racecar, I spent little time just going around re-checking torque over and over. Maybe that explains the Lucas starter that ejected itself from my xflow during practice in a driving school. But there are a lot of things to look at, look at all the other things too. The starter was funny because I found it the next day during a walk around with some other drivers before the race. I walked over picked it up and said "Hey, look what I found". Pause. "Wait, this looks familiar".

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So the moral is keep your eyes open, you never know what your going to find - or where!!!