Re: Double Nuts

[bearbvd@domain.elided (Greg Hermann)]

At 4:22 PM 10/17/01, AlfaNeely@domain.elided wrote:
>   Someone else and I both mentioned double nuts as a way to remove or
>install a stud.

Snap-On sells sets of, for lack of a better word, "stud colletts" which
(for the tool addicted) are the most gentlemanly way I have come across for
pulling/installing studs. They will generate far more torque on a stud than
two locked nuts can, and leave absolutely no tell-tale "tracks" on the
stud.

 I mentioned them as being on the big bolt that the alternator pivots on.
I said that was the only place I could think of where Alfa had used them.
>     I realized that the main bearing caps on the Alfa spiders are all
>double nutted.  There is the normal nut and a sheet metal locking nut.

The sheet metal jam nut is formally known as a "pal" nut,  or "palm|tter"
nut.

Greg

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