jibbajibba56
CEG'er
Well, I undertook some maintenance on my 00 CSVT. Among the items was front wheel bearings. Simple enough job using the guidance from sticky in the maintenance section. I got everything torqued back up nice and tight, no slop in the wheels when you grabbed them and did the push/pull test with the car up in the air. I have now had to re-torque the drivers side spindle nut 2x in two weeks. First time was right after first drive around the block, seemed the nut torqued out but maybe didn't pull the spline shaft all the way into the hub. Today I torqued it up again when I got home from work (took about a 1/4 turn to get back to 202 ft-lb). I checked the passenger side and it the torque wrench clicked right away when i got on it and i couldn't budge the nut. I am thinking that the driver side will walk a little bit in the early days as the bearing gets 'loaded' in due to that wheel spending most of its time in CCW rotation whereas the passenger side keeps torque well on that nut due to being in CW rotation most of the time. Anyone else experience this? BTW, I couldn't get the multidisk nut readily supplied but do have a more traditional solid locking nut that was listed as acceptable replacement. Any thoughts? Should I be doing a more traditional 5 step procedure to pre-load the bearings (torque it up to spec, spin the hub forward and backward, back it off 1/4 turn, spin the hub forward and backward, torque to spec)? As always, thanks in advance.
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