I bolted my rear hubs to my uprights best part of two years ago and then forgot about them, but over the weekend I was sorting the rear brakes and remembered that the bolt just seems to tap into the upright and doesn't have a nut on the back - is this correct?? I'm not sure I could get a nut in there even if I tried though??

It's as per instructions.. BUT my SVA guy noticed this and suggested that I had forgotten to fit lock nuts. So we did, you can fit nylocs on the ends of the bolts, highly recommend IMHO..

I found this was only just possible to fit the nuts (using a thin socket).

Note that in the original application these bolts were in a longer threaded hole of the sierra upright rather than the thin plate with no lock nuts, but they had locking compound on as well. I think it is worth fitting the nylocs if you can get them in.

Dan

[Edited on 19/4/11 by Bluemoon]

[Edited on 19/4/11 by Bluemoon]

Dunno, but I can tell you that's how my rear training arms are connected to my uprights and one came loose! I stuck a lock nut on it to be sure. maybe some threadlock if you can't do the same?

Loctite 243 is your friend here especially if you cant get a nyloc in there!

My SVA examiner spotted this, but was satisfied I had applied threadlock as you could see it on the exposed thread. I also used the Sierra Haynes Manual to illustrate that no nuts were fitted in the donor application. IIRC the plate thickess on the Indy upright is around 8-10mm which is the same on the Sierra trailing arm. I'm not saying don't fit nuts, but Ford made do without and used threadlock.

Cheers fellas, so perhaps not as Darwin as I thought, just caught my eye over the weekend and didn't look right.