That said, probably all of us shade-tree mechanics have re-used them, often many times over. Blue threadlocker will keep them on, but I've never had a problem with the ones I re-used even without the threadlocker. On the Ball Joint nuts, there's really no force trying to separate the parts, so as long as you can't un-thread them easily, they should be fine. And taking a tip from using fasteners on aircraft, install the bolts so that the head points to the front of the car. That way, in the extremely unlikely event the nut comes off, no forward motion of the car can cause the bolt itself to come out. It's a small thing, but it may be important! BTW - one place I never re-use self-locking nuts is on my hubs. When I'm using 200+ foot-lbs of torque, I want to know that nut isn't coming loose for the lifetime of that CV or bearing... Posts in this Thread:
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