Use new castle nuts. The old ones are probably rusted and deformed when
the tapered joints were knocked out using a dirty big hammer on the
halfway turned out nuts. You are lucky that appearantly the male threads
survived.
Kees Oudesluijs
NL
allen c miller jr wrote:
> Help!
>
> I have two cross tubes, four balljoints, and seven castle nuts, and all the
> necessary rubber blouses to make one usable cross tube assembly. The nuts are
> all clean, as are the threads on the ball joints. all are from pre-BJ8 Healeys
> with apparently matching threads. The castle nuts thread down 4 turns apiece
> +/- half a turn, but won't go further and tend to turn the ball in the joint.
> How do you tighten them without breaking the rubber lubrication blouses? It
> appears the nuts were threaded from both sides with a 'waist' just below the
> castellations.
>
> all suggestions appreciated
>
> thanks
>
> allen miller bn2/m
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