watch your nuts!

[Vecken]

Always remember to double check your nuts and bolts you do it your selfers! I just had the nut holding on my balljoint to the lower control arm let go (castle nut nowhere to be found) and the cotter pin missing??? Anyways, just a friendly reminder so no one else gets caught with uber camber in the middle of traffic.

Ps. Anyone have a welder of any kind I could use for 5 minutes? I want to weld the wheel lug that's currently holding it on so it will never budge again!

 

[02 WRX Chris]

some people on here don't even put in the cotter pin when doing those.  I think that's kinda silly if you ask me!

 

[Vecken]

Now I'm paranoid so I want to weld this lugnut straight to the control arm. If that had fallen off on the highway there would be no more subie.

 

[i-wagon]

Where you is? I have a stick and a mig that both run on 110v

 

[Matt]

And when you have to change it down the road your screwed. Just put a cotter pin in with the right nut and call it a day.

 

[Vecken]

I just replaced the entire knuckle, brakes, strut etc... With the ones from my parts car in far better condition. This car has 250k, I think this is going to be the last balljoint I'm going to be replacing on this car.

I wagon, I am in sopo but I can go anywhere in the greater Portland area, I know how to work with both stick and mig. I don't want to put too many miles on it until I get it welded solid. I am literally checking it every time before I drive it.

 

[Meyagi]

even without a cotter pin, if that nut is torqued to the proper spec, it will never come off by itself.

 

[Vecken]

I put it on with an impact wrench with plenty of pressure, I think what happened was the balljoint spun with the nut and did not actually torque down properly. I used a tire iron on wheel nut and I had to hold it with a pair of vice grips. its still holding so I guess we will see when I start hooning on it this winter.

 

[JoshP]

that's exactly what happened.  Lesson learned I guess.