Get loose locknuts replaced.Traveling over Iraq's rocky and sandy terrain is rough on your Bradley, crewmen. It's especially tough on roadwheel locknuts. The constant pounding and vibration loosens the locknuts. Just one loose locknut lock·nut also lock nut n. 1. A usually thin nut screwed down on another nut to prevent it from loosening. 2. A self-locking nut. Noun 1. puts pressure on the surrounding sur·round tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds 1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. 2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication. n. ones until they start to slip. That results in wallowed out holes on the roadwheels, stripped threads and sheared sheared adj. Shaped or finished by shearing, especially cut or trimmed to a uniform length: a sheared fur coat. Adj. 1. studs. You may even have a roadwheel take off on an unauthorized trip of its own! Check the roadwheel locknuts regularly. Look for shiny areas under the locknuts and washers that indicate movement. Feel the 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 itself. If it moves, the locknut's loose. |
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