make sure to CHECK your rig now and then .... ROUND #2

[sweetk30]

so i have had this clunk i can not find for a long time since i built the truck . happens when i turn driving like something is shifting .

well i FOUND it after almost 5k miles now . . . i was putting on my summer time pushmate bar for my fisher snow plow the other day and happen to look up and saw this





well i guess i need to find another nut and get her tight . but wait the plow frame is directly below this area and its like a Hbeam and hold stuff . . . well wouldnt you know it there is the nut . i checked them both out and no real damage so i cranked them back together and she was still tight on the crimp / stover nut end so good to go .

funny thing is the truck dont have the noise anymore on turns . . . . so go out give your rig a look over show the old girl some quality time . you might be amazed what you find .

 

[rampage]

How did a stover nut come loose? Thought they were vibration resistant. I would’ve used some blue thread locker to be sure it doesn’t happen again.

 

[76zimmer]

Or drive it in the salt, let it sit for a year, it'll never come apart again!

 

[tRustyK5]

Cross thread it...way better than loc-tite.

 

[tRustyK5]

Oh yeah, I'll be the guy to break your balls a little Brett. Seems you probably missed tightening that nut the first time around, those Stover nuts just do not back off with vibrations.

 

[mrk5]

Couple months ago I had a similar clunk in the front of my C10. Found all the alignment shims from 1 stud sitting on the top of the upper a-arm. Alignment shop didn't torque the nuts down. The other stud was snug, but not torqued.

 

[diesel4me]

I look my truck over before every ride,and I'm not surprised at what I find...
I'm horrified !..

It's getting to the point I want to just put blinders on and NOT look..

Lately I've been getting a "egg shaped tire" effect between 30-40 mph,it is causing the truck to have a bobbing effect...could be a tire belt failing but it smooths out past 45-50 and doesn't do it again till I slow down to those speeds...might be a dragging caliper or a rotor is warped,but I get no pulsation in the brake pedal when braking..

I'm afraid to look too close--might find a cracked frame or a multitude of other things ready to fail..might be the rear shocks are dead or seizing up....on top of the fuel tank leaking,no gas gauge,batteries on their last legs--on & on..

 

[sweetk30]

Oh yeah, I'll be the guy to break your balls a little Brett. Seems you probably missed tightening that nut the first time around, those Stover nuts just do not back off with vibrations.

happens to the best of us . it was a 3 month build from all spare parts .

and this is the reason i use a yellow paint pen to mark bolts / nuts tight . then when the job is done take a break and come back with a clear head and check EVERY THING and make sure there all checked .

 

[tRustyK5]

happens to the best of us . it was a 3 month build from all spare parts .

and this is the reason i use a yellow paint pen to mark bolts / nuts tight . then when the job is done take a break and come back with a clear head and check EVERY THING and make sure there all checked .

Oh for sure, I totally get that and have done the exact same thing. My "worst" and most embarrassing fastener oversight was on my old 81 Jimmy. I swapped in a new cam, lifters and timing chain, then did the rear main seal and added one of them fancy one piece oil pan gaskets. I was pretty happy with the whole process and had spent a few days intermittently working on it. When I was done I got prepared to do the cam break in...always a little stressful. It fired right away, but within a minute or so I saw oil smoke. A quick peek showed a huge oil leak. Some idiot got all the oil pan bolts started but never ran em tight.

Shit happens, and now I don't walk away from a task like that halfway through.

 

[76zimmer]

Did you hear about the dipshit that took his Vette out for a ride after a new rear diff install, and forgot to tighten the lugnuts?

 

[onetonbb74]

Exactly why I trailer my junk to the trail...the truck just gets beat up hard and its way easier to fix it in my driveway then on the side of the road not to mention liability...I look over my rig when I get home...after the last rubicon trip I had a broken trans crossmember, cracked all the way through.., not to mention all crossmember bolts were loose...already put 200 miles on the K5 after the trip to the con...

 

[muddybuddy]

Glad you caught it, coulda been ugly!

 

[sweetk30]

found this today not even looking for it . i was doing a sector shaft seal on my pile of crap AGR box other thread ..... https://ck5.com/forums/threads/not-happy-to-find-this-leak-not-happy-with-agr-box.341612/


went to re-install the pitman arm and had my finger in the hole and it felt funny . . . look inside and OMG the splines are half gone .

stock push/pull box and think it was a skyjacker drop pitman arm 2.5" drop . i have had this arm almost 20 years now and its been from 33" tires to 38" tires and this is the second box its been on .

well time to dig out another arm and swap it on next week when i swap the stock height springs under the truck and not need this arm anymore .

 

[rampage]

... had my finger in the hole and it felt funny . . .

Good catch, but I totally thought you were going somewhere else with this.

 

[sweetk30]