On 07/17/2012 02:28 PM, wrote:
> wrote:
>
>> The Honda should be fixed tomorrow, if the parts have arrived.
>
> I took the Honda in, intact, to the auto shop.
> I was going to take the knuckle off and have them do the pressing, but
> decided to let them have it all.
>
> I left for about an hour, came back in time to watch them carefully use a
> torque wrench on the axle nut, and again on my studs. I had them install
> four new studs. I had left one stud and a nut in the center console. They
> used my nut, but left the stud.
>
> I looked down for the shiny parts, before realizing that the shiny parts
> were hidden.
> All I could see was an acorn lug nut with the top busted through where
> either the new nut was too shallow, or one stud was too long.
> ;-(

indeed. and that's why i still do that kind of work myself. it's
better to have a 20t a-frame press sitting out in the garage idle most
of the time than it is to have to deal with cock-ups like this.


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