Sierra driveshafts - Handed nuts?

[mattstead]

Hi there, The sierra / granada have handed nuts on the end of the driveshafts. The nyloc on these are coloured green or white depending on which side they are from.
My problem is that I've had some new driveshafts made and can't remember which colour / hand goes on which side and I don't want to get it wrong in case the end result is a wheel falling off.

Does anyone know?

thanks.

[mattstead]

tribbles said:

And you shouldn't be able to put a wrong-handed nut on the wrong thread.

Unless you used a very large bar to tighten it up, in which case one'll cut a thread in the other.

(Always try it by hand to start off with!)

Thanks for the advice, but not kind of what I meant (God help the rest of the build if I couldn't work out how to put a nut on - although I do have my moments).

I've sent my original driveshafts of for "lengthening" (actually had new ones made to be legal), and what has come back is a selection of shafts and lobro cv joints etc.
The shafts are slightly different lengths on the different sides of the car, and I need to ensure I put the correct cv joint and threaded drive onto the correct shaft so that. I mentioned the colour of the nyloc nuts just incase someone could look at their shafts, however the suggestion that the nuts tighten towards the front of the car seems like a good one.

[mattstead]

thanks for that, glad I managed to make my self clear to some people.

Thankyou to all for their replys.

[mattstead]

asn163 said:

I don't. know anything about the colour coding of nuts, but on the driveshafts that are handed, you tighten towards the front.

HTH

Simon

The more I read and think about this, the more that this doesn't make sense. Surely you'd tighten them in the opposite direction to normal wheel rotation so they don't undo. I found this write up most interesting (and worrying for westfield owner who just followed the instructions)

http://www.megabusa-build.co.uk/diary.php?diary_id...