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Old 03-12-2003, 12:40 AM
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Found Front Disk Hub not tightly bolted to Disk Rotor--Severe Damage occured?85 300D

I went to change my front bearing tonite and I noticed that the front disk hub and the disk Rotor were not joined together tightly!
There was Play between the bearing Hub and Disk Rotor if you can believe it. I had replaced the disk rotor myself 4 months ago and evidently the bolts had come loose.
I got a 10 mm Hex head and tighened all of the nuts attaching the disk to the hub.
Several of the hex bolts were a half to one turn loose.
After thinking it over I stopped repairs at that point. i was scared to think that the hub and disk were loose and what could have happened if they had separated at high speed with high braking force.
I am wondering if the play in the hub and disk when they were loose were enough to have cause some abnormal shear stress in the hex bolts or the hub and the disk and whether the whole assembly is Trash.
I mean someday I will be driving across the Verrazono bridge at 80 mph with my family in this car.
Any professional advice? Am i over imaginiing things? Did I fix the problem simply by tightening the hub nuts?

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