Spindle nuts.

[ShagFestiva]

Haven't seen this discussed before but would a large lock washer keep the spindle nut from backing off the spindle? Instead of bashing the collar into the key. Or would it not be enough pressure?

[ejp2fast]

as long as there was a flat washer also so no damage to the parts.. i'm sure it would work. or you could loctite the nut.

[Lil-Red]

a no worry solution, weld it :O

[ejp2fast]

a no worry solution, weld it :O

and as soon as you would... you'd find out you screwed something up and it needed to come off again..

[ShagFestiva]

lol yes welding would be verrrry permanent. I'm doing my bearings because im going on a trip, and...they just sound awful lol. You need to tighten down the nut quite a bit at first to seat the bearings right?

[MTec007]

right but dont leave it tight. just tight enough to remove wheel play, or you'll end up like i did a couple weeks ago, the inner bearing race welded itself to the spindle and i had the replace the whole wheel assembly.

[Pu241]

You need to tighten down the nut quite a bit at first to seat the bearings right?

No

You do need to seat them, but NOT "tighten down ..... quite a bit".

Procedure is on Page 1-31 of the Haynes manual.
You do have a manual for your car?

[Festy46]

Haven't seen this discussed before but would a large lock washer keep the spindle nut from backing off the spindle? Instead of bashing the collar into the key. Or would it not be enough pressure?

It's not going to work. For a lock washer to work, it has to be tightened down very hard. The nut on a spindle is not much tighter than finger tight and that is not enough to give the lock washer a good bite on the nut.

[Breedlove]

Someone on here drilled a hole in the top of the nut once it was tightened and put a locking pin through it, into the spindle groove, as I understand it. That would keep it from backing off, though you would have to do that everytime you take the nut off unless you were lucky enough for alignment.

[willowfarm]

If you ever tried to weld them the bearings will be gone in no time, the ground goes through the bearings and leaves an arc spot in different places until welding done. Not good.

[1990festiva]

Drill a hole, or look for one, mine has holes in it already, then get a set of castle nuts and pins for it, problem solved

[ShagFestiva]

i dont think im going to drill holes...i guess ill just do it the way it should be done lol. so it needs to be JUST tight enough to remove the wiggle in the wheel, thats where I messed up. The mechanic at my friends shop told me to leave a little wiggle in it so that the bearings have room to expand when they heat up....

[MTec007]

you dont really want any wiggle. but you dont tighten them too much, trust me on that. i just replaced one of my spindles due to over tightening the nut.

[resuwrecked]

a no worry solution, weld it :O

My friend had problems with his axle nuts backing off because he replaced them with non-stake nuts so he tacked it. It held fine and the tack broke easily when it was time to disassemble.
Stake nuts should be enough to keep things in place.

If you ever tried to weld them the bearings will be gone in no time, the ground goes through the bearings and leaves an arc spot in different places until welding done. Not good.

No. Have you ever welded before?

[ShagFestiva]

^ lol

thanks for the advice...I think ill just stick to the old nuts.