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Originally Posted by theiceman
most times when they come loose it is because of sloppy assembly and they have CV grease in the threads,,
the very last thing when doing this job is taking each bolt back out one at a time and installing new bolts, or cleaning the old ones with brake clean and an old tooth brush and putting a dab of blue loctite.
recheck after 500 miles, 1k miles and 5 k miles ... good to go ..
i also run a pipe cleaner type wire brush through the holes, but not everyone has one.
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This is a good point. And should be done to achieve proper torque specs. Regardless of weather or not you’re using Locktite.
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