EZ Flex hanger bolts creeking - triple axle
As the title states I have a triple axle with the upgraded EZ Flex hangers and wet bolt setup. Last few hundred miles it developed an annoying squeak. I greased everything and it was still there. Grab...
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fj12ryder wrote:That is not true. Simply a matter of piece of mind. We are trying to find solutions for the OP whose nuts are backing off of the bolt (no pun intended). We could always recommend drilling the nut and bolt and putting a piece of safety wire through it but that is not realistic.
My thought would be that if you have enough of a problem that you feel you need to weld the nuts on, then there are some real serious issues somewhere. I've never worked on anything that was so poorly designed that the nuts had to be welded to keep from coming loose.
I had an F350 and had a spring shackle rivet fail. I popped them all out and put in grade 8 hardware and after I tightened them down, I dropped about a 1/4 inch tac on them. The tac was not because something was wrong but because I did not want them coming off. No chances with the tac.
