I'm installing new ball joints on our 93. I bought Moog figuring that Carquest sells them all over the country and Swedish Engineering uses them all the time. Swedish Engineering had them delivered with great service. The ball joints look great, and were made in Spain. Anyway, I mounted one of them last night in its housing, the housing that is fastened to the bottom of the strut tube with four bolts. I used an 18mm flange locknut (Volvo part number 969317) and two drops of blue threadlocker (Carquest Brand). I cleaned the stud and the nut threads with carb cleaner first and made sure it was all dry. Then I torqued the nut to 45 pounds as specified by the Volvo green book. I left it for 24 hours. Today I changed my mind when I realized I hadn't used the exact locking nut that Volvo specified. (Important component here.) So I went out to the garage and removed the nut, which had been torqued with threadlocker 24 hours before. To my surprise, the nut came off with very little pressure. I set my torque wrench at 45 pounds as an experiment, but it took far less pressure to get the nut off. I figured it would be take more pressure with the cured threadlocker, not less. What am I missing here?
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Thanks for all the help. DougC. 1981 242 Brick Off Blocks, Turbo bars and wheels, M46. 1990 245, auto, 113k. 1993 245, M47, 154k.
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