Cone Washers for knuckle arms
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Cone Washers for knuckle arms
Hey,
I'm in the process of designing some high-steer arms for my SAS.
Are the cone washers that go on the knuckle studs neccessary?
It seems to me that if I drilled I just machined them with straight holes and used a combination of lock washers, lock nuts, and lock-tite then I would probably be ok against vibrations.
I assume the cone washers are there to keep the arm from moving around under the nuts, but if I drilled the holes to a better fit than toyota does with their holes, wouldn't that be fine?
For anyone searching, I ground the poop out of a junked drill bit until it fit pretty well into the stock steering arm, to drill tapered holes for the cone washers
Thanks,
Tyler
I'm in the process of designing some high-steer arms for my SAS.
Are the cone washers that go on the knuckle studs neccessary?
It seems to me that if I drilled I just machined them with straight holes and used a combination of lock washers, lock nuts, and lock-tite then I would probably be ok against vibrations.
I assume the cone washers are there to keep the arm from moving around under the nuts, but if I drilled the holes to a better fit than toyota does with their holes, wouldn't that be fine?
For anyone searching, I ground the poop out of a junked drill bit until it fit pretty well into the stock steering arm, to drill tapered holes for the cone washers
Thanks,
Tyler
Last edited by Tylerars24; 12-05-2007 at 06:41 PM.
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Understanding what the cone washers do would make you realize why they are necessary due to stress loading and the transfer of this loading. There are lengthy threads on Pirate and Marlin forums concerning this subject.
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