ahhhhhhh rear axle bolt snapped (again)

[herbster]

No!  just adding to dadrathers tip! Feel free to use it though!! 

[Mew]

I didn't read it properly  :embarassed:

I'll get my coat........

[hobbiniho]

If you break it in tension then it will 'neck' i.e get smaller diameter just where it fails.

like this  dodgy batch, cos iv just been out and tried tightning the one i got today and it has torqued down to 60 nm and hasnt snapped 

[hobbiniho]

sorry for crap pics iv only got my phone 

[dadrathers]

Yeah that looks like tension failure to me. That is gobsmacking - even a lowly mild steel bolt should take half the load of a 10.9 before breaking. So the material that those bolts are made of must be sh@@te.

[hobbiniho]

yeah i went back to the stealers and they are refunding the cost of the new bolt and getting me a new one free of charge, as they said that it was proably a dodgy batch of bolts so they are going to report it anjd that batch should have been taken out of cirulation a while ago these were just ones that still had in stock 

[dadrathers]

Good - glad to hear they accept responsibility - sounds like you are sorted now but what a lot of messing about!!!!!

[hobbiniho]

yeh f**kin pain in the arse the new bolt wont arrive until monday 

[Conker]

Hope they've got better quality control on their cylinder head bolts... Christ be'zeesus!!!