stepqhen

I just installed a pair of Maximum Motorsport caster camber plates. I threaded the lock-nuts on by hand until it hit the nylon and then tightened using a torque wrench set to 20 lb-ft. On a couple of the bolts I noticed that it would just never tighten all the way. I checked to make sure the stud wasn't spinning, and it wasn't. It appears that the threads in the nut, stud or both just ate themselves.

MM is sending me new stud plates and hardware and gave me no flack, kudos to them, because even typing this and having been there doing it with my own two hands I would still instinctively assume I was lying about over torquing these things.

So how on earth do I avoid this again? I already have to take the front end apart again to replace the damaged parts, and I don't want to do it a third. I can't figure out if I had done something to cause this or if it was just bad luck.

parchisi

I got overzealous once and stripped a stud on my MM C/C plates as well. Bought a new one from MM and that was that. 20lb-ft isn't that much torque, are you sure you got your wrench set correctly? I don't use a torque wrench on my C/C plates, but just tighten them down to "a little more than snug" and have never had them move on me.