Nuts to me!

[Alex Kowalski]

Kent wrote:

>I'm not familiar with the nuts, but would Loctite (red?, the
>permanent stuff) be good enough to hold the nuts in place?
>We're talking nuts, not use-once stretch bolts.

The thing that bothered me about reusing them with Loctite that is that the
serrations on the flat of the nut on was basically worn almost completely
off after 17 or so years.  If you run your finger across the flat of the
nut, you can't feel any serrations on 3 of the 4, and the purpose of the
serrations is to help the nut "grip" the metal and resist turning -- without
putting torque on the bolts that descend from the body.  In other words, I
think the serrations were specified there for a reason, and when I took them
off my car, they were almost gone.  AFAIK, they're the only serrated nuts on
the vehicle.

I'm a little obsessive about this particular thing, but it's the
forward mount for essentially the entire rear suspension.  I don't want it
them coming loose, and I also don't want to subject the bolts to anything
they weren't intended to do.

In almost anything else, I would use Loctite.  But these struck me as being
there for a good reason.