Upper control arm bolt wont completely tighten
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Upper control arm bolt wont completely tighten
As the title states yesturday I was lowering the car and I was on the last bolt and I must have over torqued it and now the bolt wont tighten all the way. All though it is flush and still treads and rethreads it wont tighten to 46lbs. Has anyone had this happen? what can I do to fix it?
thanks,
bryan
thanks,
bryan
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yes All the washers are back in the correct location but the one on the very end is completly flush but wont tighten to 48 lbs? They each only had one washer and I put all of them in the same location. Is there a locking nut behind the hole or is it just a threaded hole in the reinforcement?
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You need to pull all four bolts back out.
Swing the arm out of the way & see if that one bolt will go all the way in
till it is tight up against the threaded female mount.
If it does so, with no problem.
start all four of your bolts through the a arm & tighten them back down, alternating .... going from one bolt to the next, bringing the a arm evenly back into position, until tight.
Sounds as though you may have had that one bolt in a bind.
Swing the arm out of the way & see if that one bolt will go all the way in
till it is tight up against the threaded female mount.
If it does so, with no problem.
start all four of your bolts through the a arm & tighten them back down, alternating .... going from one bolt to the next, bringing the a arm evenly back into position, until tight.
Sounds as though you may have had that one bolt in a bind.