Sierra rear drive shaft thread
21-09-2018, 02:25 PM
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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
21-09-2018, 05:51 PM
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Passenger side on a right hand drive car. I.e. nearside. REAR
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24-09-2018, 11:27 AM
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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.
25-09-2018, 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.
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