CV joint bolt torque., Re-torqued the next day. Options

[Elliot Cannon]

I guess this goes under the "for what it's worth" collumn but I recently bolted up my inner CV joints. I used gaskets and torqued them down. I waited till the next day to safety wire them and decided to re-torque them. Each bolt turned an additional 1/8 to 1/4 turn. Some of you might already use this tightening technique but I thought I'd post it anyway. For what it's worth. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[r_towle]

I am now curious as to what the factory trained guys like the Cap'n and Woody are told to do, and do on a regular basis every day.

Also, did the CV joint gasket appear on every year 914?

There must be some engineering and documentation behind these gaskets?

Seems like gaskets are used in this application on quite a few cars nowadays, with no major issues.

I would assume (not being an engineer, nor a factory trained mechanic) that the gasket not only provides the function of keeping the grease in the CV joint, but also applying reverse pressure against the threads of the bolt to HELP keep them from coming loose.

It seems to me that the gasket would server two purposes.

I have personally never had an issue when I used the gasket...but always have issues when I dont use the gasket.

I followed the advise learned here and had one axle get loose and fall off.
I went back to the gasket (torqued twice) and have never had them loosen up again.

Not sure what the issue really is, but it seems to work.
Maybe I have been lucky.

I will admint that ever since I lost one axle, I check the bolts at least once per year...and everytime before and after an autox.

That is standard nut/bolt for an autox though.

Since using gaskets (again) I have never found them loose.

Rich