While working on my t over the years where I removed bolts I would replace the nuts with elastic stop nut ( not one subject to rotation). I also spent many years working on aircraft and stop nuts are used almost in all applications.
Would Henry used castle nuts if stop nutswhere available then?
Elastic stop nuts
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Professor Fate
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Re: Elastic stop nuts
"Would Henry use castle nuts if stop nutswhere available then?"
Maybe only if it was cost effective and/or labor saving?
Wouldn't the labor time spent installing a cotter pin being removed by using a nylon stop nut be appealing to Ford back then...?
My '23 is nut for nut, bolt for bolt as it came from HF. But my '26 speedy has modern hardware. I used nylon stop nuts on body bolts, steering column at the firewall, steering bracket, battery box to name a few. It ended up being a mix of old and new.
Maybe only if it was cost effective and/or labor saving?
Wouldn't the labor time spent installing a cotter pin being removed by using a nylon stop nut be appealing to Ford back then...?
My '23 is nut for nut, bolt for bolt as it came from HF. But my '26 speedy has modern hardware. I used nylon stop nuts on body bolts, steering column at the firewall, steering bracket, battery box to name a few. It ended up being a mix of old and new.
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Re: Elastic stop nuts
I don't use stop nuts (I call them self-locking nuts) on my T, but I do use them extensively on my hot rod. In aircraft applications they should be a one-use item, so over time they are more expensive then reusable castle nuts.
The one exception to the no self-locking nuts in my T is one pivot bolt in the top supports. A lockwasher probably wouldn't work so it appears that a previous owner used a lock nut where (I suspect) a castle nut and cotter pin was originally used.
The one exception to the no self-locking nuts in my T is one pivot bolt in the top supports. A lockwasher probably wouldn't work so it appears that a previous owner used a lock nut where (I suspect) a castle nut and cotter pin was originally used.