[s-cars] Donkeyitis - A tale of luck and lug bolt laxity

[Doug Landaeta]

If you've misplaced the link...
http://www.dadsauto.com/ (no affiliation, yada yada)
new hubs can be expensive, with 3 lugs backed out, your friend prolly has
'toast',
good luck!

Doug L
94 S4 (retorqueing those Summer tires ASAP)


-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-admin at audifans.com
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Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 5:05 PM
To: edward.walsh at agedwards.com; iduff at rcn.com
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Donkeyitis - A tale of luck and lug bolt laxity


Ed:
I lost a wheel at Gingermann Raceway last year, freshly swapped wheels dry
torqued to spec, so stuff happens (understatement given the threads of
late).

The hubs should be chased with high quality 3 stage (that's 3 separate
tools) tap set, M14x1.50.  Also remember audi makes different length bolts
for different wheels...

Make sure there is no lateral play from the bolts backing out.  The best way
to test this is to put a bolt in without the wheel, and ck the play.
Compare it to one of the other known good hubs.  If it's worse, then
replacement of the hub is necessary.  If you have buggered threads at the
face, chances are good the hub is toast.

HTH

Scott Justusson
QSHIPQ Performance Tuning
In a message dated 5/6/2003 3:14:16 PM Eastern Standard Time,
edward.walsh at agedwards.com writes:

> Ian,
>
> He says thanks for the help.
>
> Of course, the question is, what size tap?  The lug bolts are ?mm , so the
> tap should be ?mm
>
> I was also thinking that I should buy slightly longer lugs for the RF hub
as
> well. With longer lugs, I could access some fresh threads deeper in the
hub.
> I am fairly certain the my after market rims are thicker between the
conical
> "seat" of the lug surface and the back of the wheel vs.
> stock, so
> accommodating a longer lug bolt shouldn't be a problem.
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