Beware of bolt busters.Checking the differential bolts on your Stryker is a before- and after-operation PMCS PMCS PMC Sierra (stock symbol) PMCS Project Management Control System PMCS partial mission-capable, supply (US DoD) PMCS Preventive Maintenance Checks & Services PMCS Professional Military Comptroller School check, drivers. And it's an important one. Vibration and collisions with brush, rocks and other debris can be a bolt buster. And that's enough to make you lose a differential. Each differential has 8 bolts, nuts and washers holding it in place. Each vehicle has 4 differentials, so you have a total of 32 sets of hardware to check. Look for shiny spots around the nuts and washers that indicate loosening loosening /loo·sen·ing/ (loo´sen-ing) freeing from restraint or strictness. loosening of associations bolts. If you find one, report it. Mechanics, add a few drops of sealing compound, NSN NSN National Stock Number NSN Nokia Siemens Networks NSN National Storytelling Network NSN NATO Stock Number NSN New Substances Notification (CEPA) NSN National Student Number (NZ) NSN Never Say Never 8030-01-014-5869, to the bolt threads before torquing the nuts to 58-64 lb-ft. That'll help keep the nuts in place. Replace missing bolts with NSN 5305-01-297-1865. A new nut comes with NSN 5310-01-155-3858 and a new washer washer Orthopedics A flattened disk of metal with a central hole used to distribute stress under a screw head to prevent thin cortical bone from splitting; serrated washers are used to affix avulsed ligaments, small avulsion fractures or comminuted fractures to the with NSN 5310-01-265-6333. |
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