Rear main seal noise

Kneale Brownson knotnook at traverse.com
Fri Oct 25 12:48:06 EDT 2002


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Wheel bolts on all my Audis reach the full thickness of the hub (without
protruding significantly).  Sounds like you need different bolts for use
with the thicker wheels.

At 10:42 AM 10/25/2002 -0400, Louis-Alain Richard wrote:

>Last night I installed my snow tires and the recent tread on wheel bolt
>torque was fresh to my memory.  I removed the Ronal to install OEM steel
>A4 wheels.  So I cleaned the bolts very carefully, I used a torque wrench
>but some bolts were still showing a strange behavior.  The reason is wheel
>mounting flange thickness; steelies are only a couple of mm thick where
>alloys are 12-15 mm.  So, even after a good cleaning, the bolts were still
>difficult to wind past their usual resting depth, meaning the remaining
>threads are stretched or deformed, or still dirty. The solution was to
>wind-unwind many, many times with the impact wrench after another
>wire-brush cleaning.  Now I can easily wind them all just with my fingers.
>Maybe this might explain the 3-wheeler club ?
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