Sierra rear drive shaft thread

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Sep 21, 2018 | 02:25 PM

pauloopnorth

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Sierra rear drive shaft thread

Can somebody please clarify which side of the car has the revers thread on the drive shaft stub, Sierra 4x4 Cosworth

Sep 21, 2018 | 05:51 PM

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Passenger side on a right hand drive car. I.e. nearside. REAR

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Sep 21, 2018 | 11:32 PM

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Near side rear
off side front
left hand thread is identified by a notch in the nut

Sep 22, 2018 | 03:21 PM

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So Rear nuts are in direction of tyre rotation?
and
Fronts are in opposite direction to tyre rotation ?

Sep 24, 2018 | 11:27 AM

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So Rear nuts are in direction of tyre rotation?
and
Fronts are in opposite direction to tyre rotation ?

That does not sound correct to me.

Drivers side rear (offside) is conventional nut so would be anti clockwise to tighten it therefore not direction of tyre rotation. All I know is that the REAR passenger side is a reverse thread as I found out the hard way when I put a powerful impact gun on it and snapped the thread due to thinking it was a normal thread.

Sep 25, 2018 | 05:16 AM

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The fronts on a 2wd car are tightened from the inside of the car, the rears are tightened from the outside hence the different thread. On a 4x4 the fronts both have normal (RH) thread and you need to knock a small piece of the nut into a recess in the driveshaft to prevent it from loosening.