Havent been able to break them but had enough for today..lol.. Thinking about taking my grinder with a cutting wheel and just cutting them off..Thoughts?
Go for it.
Guess i better not cut them and save them..parts house doesnt have the specific ones for the car, just a million different ones to choose from.Im not sure what thread, pitch, length, this and that they are. I do know mine are the correct ones with the flat part through the top section designed to not crush the axle tube.
Yeah. That'll work! U-bolts are technically not supposed to be reused anyway. That said, I've always done it IF they come off easily.
anyone know anyone that sells the correct u-bolts for this?
General Spring. Also ESPO Springs and Things.
Yea I usually speed the process up with a long cheater bar, a slight twist and off they come.
How do you chase the threads on a U bolt
According to who....
Says my experience, first and foremost, but also, see post #10. The factory nuts are peened so that they lock down when torqued. Very similar to how some Exhaust nuts are made. Usually, aftermarket U-bolt nuts are not peened. But the peened nuts almost always distort the threads on the factory bolt when backing off, IF they back off. A lot of times, even the ones you do get off, damage the threads. So unless they come off easily, I'd pitch um in the garbage. They're cheap enough to buy new and not something you want to take chances with.
Like I said, tighten the nuts back up- this exposes the majority of the threads. I've seen factory u bolts with a couple inches of exposed threads below the nuts. Run a die on and off the exposed threads. Then spin the nuts off. He's already got them part way off, so if you tighten them back up you'll be able to get the rest cleaned up other than 1 or 2 threads. Not difficult at all.
This has been debated for decades. The flat and round u-bolts have been used on all makes and models with no rhyme or reason. I've seen original Mopars with each kind. It's not like there's any way in hades they're gonna move anyway, and as long as you're not a caveman and over torque the nuts, you'll never have issues with crushing axle tubes.
Agreed, at least for us non cavemen.
Every day...
Hey, buy what you want. It's your money. Millions of vehicles came with round u-bolts and you don't see um layin in the ditch because they came loose. Some of the things yall worry about makes me flat out laugh. Both styles are "correct".
