Torque Values, What Fastener Lubrication does.

Ameer Antar ameer at snet.net
Sun Nov 26 20:36:35 EST 2000


just to add to the list...tie-rods need anti-seize as well. They will lock 
up on you and you'll have to throw them out.


At 08:01 PM 11/26/2000 , you wrote:

> > Actually, the Audi Bentleys do not assume lubrication.
> > In fact, those that I have read specify _dry_.
>
>I wouldn't have expected _any_ text to assume lubrication - I was always
>taught it was the great no-no.  There was a case a few years ago of a
>bus garage manager being charged with manslaughter for putting
>anti-seize on wheel nuts.
>
>There are two places on Audis to use anti-seize - on the inner walls of
>brake discs so they don't rust to the hubs, and on the end of the
>handbrake Bowden cable jacket where it sits against the caliper.
>
>Large bolts are routinely thrown in the degreaser in our workshop.  It's
>actually not a good idea to stand too near it at times.
>
>--
>  Phil Payne
>  UK Audi quattro Owners Club
>  http://www.isham-research.freeserve.co.uk/quattro
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