{"id":4262,"date":"2019-02-28T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2019-02-28T06:00:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T11:00:27","slug":"cross-threaded-axle-nut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/28\/cross-threaded-axle-nut\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Threaded Axle Nut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking through my picture archive, and somehow I&#8217;ve never posted this from over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4259\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019_02_28_01.jpg\" alt=\"2019_02_28_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Somehow the nut on this front axle shaft had gotten cross-threaded, and removing it completely stripped all the threads from the end of the axle. Whether the nut got cross-threaded as it went on or if something else happened, I&#8217;m not sure. It&#8217;s hard enough to tighten a small bolt that&#8217;s been cross-threaded, and this is about an inch in diameter, so that would be extremely hard to tighten cross-threaded the entire way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4260\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019_02_28_02.jpg\" alt=\"2019_02_28_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To get the nut off, the tech that was working on this car had to cut into the end of the axle and nut with a cut-off wheel until the nut was able to flex enough to release and come off.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/merchandise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T-shirts, hats, and stickers<\/a> are available to order!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking through my picture archive, and somehow I&#8217;ve never posted this from over a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[26,58],"class_list":["post-4262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-damage","tag-suspension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}