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Hi gents, was using this writeup as my guide and need some help.. kinda stuck!
The nut (the 27mm nut in the step 8) was apparently sitting on a "thread insert" (looks like a little spring). When I removed nut the "spring" was on the shaft. I was able to unscrew it.
Now how do I put it back? The nut is obviously bigger size then shaft so this insert is required. If I put insert on - I can't get nut over it (maybe one loop goes in and the rest gets squished as I try to tighten. I've spent an hour now trying to screw it inside the nut first - so far no luck....
Any trick to it?
Unless I miss my guess that is actually a thread repair Insert. The spring looking thing. It looks to me like someone has been there before, they damaged the threaded part of the axle, ground it down, and rethreaded it down to the next smaller size. Then they got a thread sert repair kit, and used the threaded insert to make up the difference. A thread sert is supposed to go into a hole, that was drilled, and tapped oversized, then the thread sert is installed into the over sized hole, returning the hole to the original thread size. Using the thread sert in this way is ingenious, I'm not sure it's 100% as good as new, but it obviously worked. The other way to properly repair it would be to replace the splined shaft itself. Hope it helps. Jack
The threadsert is part of that nut when purchased new from Jaguar. That’s why Jaguar states in the repair manual to use a new nut every time it’s removed.
Wow that's something I've never seen before. I can see why they say to replace it every time. Any idea what the science behind it is? Cause it sure doesn't look to be the best way of doing it? Must be a reason. LOL!
