flyboy2610
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Ah thanks for that. For some reason I had it in mind that the nuts were similar to setting a timkin bearing, but that didn't make sense after seeing how everything rotates together in there.I always torque the axle nut to 105, same as the lug nuts.
That happened to me once on my 08 Montana van. Had no idea what happened when I heard the bolt drop and brakes went soft but I was just a couple of blocks from the dealer and they found one missing bolt and the other loose. They charged something like $30 for that bolt and a couple of hours labour to replace it and retorque all the others. I can't say if I did or didn't tighten them on the last brake job. I now use either Blue or Orange Loctite when I put them on and deliberately torque them.I discovered one of the main bolts that holds the entire brake assembly in place had fallen out. Found a suitable replacement at Ace, but the second bolt was also loose. In all my years of working on cars I have never had that happen -- my best guess is I simply forgot to crank down those two bolts as I put everything back together again. <bangs head on driveway>
No.. If it was still able to align correctly, then its within the tolerances allowed by the manufacture. Its when you get to the limit of those tolerances, that you have to look deeper.Wouldn't that show up as a failure to perform an alignment though, at least if it was bad enough to cause crab-walking?