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On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 08:09, Jim Adney wrote: > On 7 Apr 2004 at 17:52, Ben Doughney wrote: > > > Today I noticed that the top of the steering box was loose, all 4 bolts > > had started to work their way out, it was lucky I spotted that! Is > > there supposed to be lock plates or something to stop them working > > loose, or do the spring washers do a good enough job of holding them > > down? > > I think it's just secured with lock washers. Those usually seem to do a fine > job, but I occasionally see loose ones. I've generally assumed that someone had > been in there and left those bolts loose, but it could just be loosening from > road vibration that finally got to them. Nope, they just come loose on their own. It was part of a normal service at the dealer to check them. I even have a special offset wrench around here someplace to tighten them. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org