Recall NHTSA #24v-193

[Steven@147]

My wife , Tami was just telling me about a face post she was reading this morning. Seems the Momentum and Solitude U Bolts are now too tight. Well at first they were too loose, now they are too tight?
I remember going back 4 or 5 years now on the forum, we were talking about checking the U Bolts torque at 65 ft-lbs. When I just now changed my leaf springs, I torqued the new 1/2 U Bolts to 65.

In another thread we were just talking about inconsistent wet bolt nut torque. Can't we all get along and settle on a consistent torque valve for some of these things? geeze

 

[triplethreat]

And here is the link to that recall, from Grand Design..........https://www.granddesignrv.com/owners/recalls/recalls---24v-193

I also stickied it to stay at the top of the section.

 

[Scott'n'Wendy]

Can't we all get along and settle on a consistent torque valve for some of these things? geeze

Well....what would we talk about then?!?

We all know everything important was settled years ago....we just need to change things up every now and then so we can keep talking....lol

 

[huntindog]

My wife , Tami was just telling me about a face post she was reading this morning. Seems the Momentum and Solitude U Bolts are now too tight. Well at first they were too loose, now they are too tight?
I remember going back 4 or 5 years now on the forum, we were talking about checking the U Bolts torque at 65 ft-lbs. When I just now changed my leaf springs, I torqued the new 1/2 U Bolts to 65.

In another thread we were just talking about inconsistent wet bolt nut torque. Can't we all get along and settle on a consistent torque valve for some of these things? geeze

U bolts should be 90 # according to Lippert.
I have now rebuilt the suspensions on 4 RVs, that is every one I have owned. Never had anything come loose afterwards, and once I started using Never fails, I did not have to touch them again.

 

[ajg617]

@huntindog The two recalls were only for Curt axles. It does make me wonder why a two loose followed by a too tight recall was necessary. My Dexters were not recalled and the U-bolts are at 90 ft lbs per LCI.

 

[huntindog]

@huntindog The two recalls were only for Curt axles. It does make me wonder why a two loose followed by a too tight recall was necessary. My Dexters were not recalled and the U-bolts are at 90 ft lbs per LCI.

Probably found a rouge employee was using an impact wrench

 

[RVwino]

Probably found a rouge employee was using an impact wrench

How did you know the employee was wearing makeup?

 

[Hoopy Frood]

How did you know the employee was wearing makeup?

I thought he was being circumspect about the employee being a Commie.