adamatism

This is somewhat trivial, but after painting my front Crossmember (K-member, etc.) I'm putting it back under the car and I can't seem to tighten nuts onto the four studs. I can get the nuts on about halfway easily and then they get REAL tough to turn. I don't believe Im crossthreading them- are these supposed to be really tight compression fittings or something? Just in case I grabbed the wrong 4 nuts, does anyone have the thread count of these studs? Thanks, as always. -Adam

Jeff20B

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I think they're crimped at the end, or have nylon or something. I think they're supposed to be hard to get on, so hopefully they'll stay on with road and engine vibrations.

nlc1179

make sure you didnt strip the tread when you took them off. me and coldy13 just took off his tranny and stripped the bolts. he got new ones from a mazda dealer and the went back on pretty easy.

coldy13

I only stripped one of the threads. When I took out one of the bolts, somehow part of the threads from the hole became fused with the bolt. I just ran a tap through the hold and used new crossmember bolts. Now they're fine. A mazda dealer charges $4.50 for each crossmember bolt. Or, if you know the thead pitch of the bolts you're using, the right pitch is M10 x 1.25. When I put them back in(yesterday) they went in easy until the last little bit, so I don't think it's right that they get very hard that soon.

Jeff20B

iTrader: (13)

M10 x 1.25 is correct for tranny mounting hardware. I just messed with mine today. Got 'em all clean and they all went on easier than they came off.

Do yours have a nasty old oil and sand buildup in the threads?