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MG TD TF 1500 - Brake Dum - locking tabs

Can I use a Nylock nuts and ignore the locking tabs on the brake drums?

Gord Clark
Rockburn, Qu╬.
Gord Clark

Might be too thick, I pre-bend the tabs, easy to do.


Peter
P G Gilvarry

Locking Tabs? Can you post a picture of that? I am not sure where they are?
Bruce Cunha

Locking tab washer for bolts that hold brake drum to hub, wire wheel cars, TD/TF. Three required per drum.
Also known as part no. 19-172B

Frank Cronin

Used on wire wheel drums Bruce to secure the hubs to the drum. The nuts are pretty skinny and I believe a lock nut may not reach the threads and that they would be tall enough to cause issues with the wire wheel hub. If you wanted to eliminate the lack tabs I think I would just apply some red loctite to the threads and you would be good to go.

L E D LaVerne

LED...a bit off topic...but when you pulled the hub/drums....did you pull each one individually...or as a hub/drum assembly? Your picture shows those bolted together with the locking tabs in place. If pulled as an assembly...any concern with possibly warping the drum or damaging the hub?

Jim
Jim Rice

Ah ok, Wire Wheels. To us perfectionists, that's a strange thing. (not that they don't look really good) hehe.

Bruce Cunha

Jim I have done it both ways but it's a lot easier to just pull it as a single unit. I have no concerns about pulling it as a single unit.
L E D LaVerne

This thread was discussed between 30/01/2022 and 01/02/2022

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