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Old 11-24-2004, 12:46 PM
maroon menace
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okay enough of this,
the wheel bolts are attached to a flange that fits onto the splined end of the axel. the disk brake and the wheel are carried on this flange or hub. there is no physical connection between the flange and the spidle carrier that contains the wheel bearings. the axle passes through the spindle carrier and rides on the bearings. The hub is attached to the axel by a nut that must be tightened to the correct torque or the bearings willl fail. the load that the wheel/axel carries is passed on to the vehicle body through the wheel bearings to the spindel carrier to the strut.
Nothing you can do to the wheel bolts (lug nuts) will effect the bearings!
What you can do with great difficulty is distort the brake disk by over tightening without a cross sequence with an air gun. more common with drums than with disks though.
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