Wheel bolt woes

[Ingo Rautenberg]

I have successfully done the helicoil after a shop messed one up on mom's
100 a few years back.  Also on other cars.  It made sense and held up very
well, thank you.  If you're replacing the hub, you need to replace the wheel
bearing as well, so weigh your options.  Maybe you can just find a used
complete upright assembly with hub to replace yours.

Ingo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard van der Hoff" <quattro at rvanderhoff.org.uk>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 5:00 PM
Subject: Wheel bolt woes


> I changed the brake fluid on my '91 coupe yesterday, and I was just
> congratulating myself on a job well done*, and cranking up the wheel
> bolts, when I felt the sickening give of a sheared thread. Further
> inspection revealed that the thread had pulled out of the hub :(.
>
> Tempting as it is to blame the tyreshop monkeys and their
> crank-it-up-to-500lb-ft air wrenches, that doesn't really solve the
> problem. So has anybody experienced this? Is a helicoil likely to sort
> me out?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rich
>
> * Incidentally: my old non-return-valve style bleeding kit
> disintegrated, so I went and bought a Gunson Ezbleed. I cannot believe I
> spent years doing this the difficult way: the Ezbleed made the whole
> thing so easy... even the clutch, with its bleed nipple cunningly
> positioned in the depths of the engine bay so as to deter all but the
> most determined, was pretty simple. Fifteen quid very well spent.
>
>