I'm hoping to be done with my front end rebuild this weekend and put some end of the season miles on the old girl. 928Motorsports provided this Koni spring/shock kit. I'm not familiar with the lock nut they give me for the top of the shock tower.
This kit:
Here's a pic of the nut:
I called their tech support and they said this type nut is supposed to go on hard. This feels like i'm putting on a crossthreaded nut though, almost more than my workbench/vise combination can handle
. Are the markings in the photo supposed to visible when i'm threading on? The threads reduce in diameter from one side of the nut to the other I know. Hmm, maybe if i heated the nut first...
For this winter, seriously considering a strip of the interior as in:
