Hit the ball joint down so it is firmly seated then tighten up the nut. If the thread is slightly damaged then the tie rod may turn, in this case hold the end of the bolt with some vice grips to stop it turning and continue to tighten the nut. When the nut gets tight you will no longer need the vice grips, tighten up the nut and insert the split pin. How do you stop the ball jointsand tie rod ends from turning while trying to tighten the nuts?
Hand tight. just use the plastic nuts that came with it. With a basin wrench to secure the 1/2" hex nuts
the 2 11ml nuts at the base of the bar, loosen them and full bar till chain tight and tighten the nuts. Then your ready to kill more evil trees or just hang it up ready for the zombie appocolips.
Tighten them too loose and they may come off. Tighten them too tight and you may warp the brake rotor. For those reasons it is critical to torque them correctly.
22 ft lbs torque on the rocker arm nuts is all that is required.
You can not tighten a T-Rod end up. If it is loose then replace it.
There is a couple of nuts on the clutch rod and they jam or tighten against each other.Loosen the jam nut back off about 6 turns and then backoff (shorten) the other so that the travel of the rod is less. when you slightly depress the clutch you want 1 inch of play before you feel any resistance. when you have the 1 inch then tighten the 2 nuts against each other.
You have to replace the strut rod bushing there are two in each strut rod inner and outer bushing then you could tight them again. the one you have is already shrink.
loosen the lug nuts with a 19mm wrench. jack up the car. remove the tire. put a new one on. put the lug nuts back on tight enough. lower the car. tighten lug nuts to 90 ft-lbs
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