My nuts were loose when I checked them the other day. You shouldn't need to touch your nuts everyday, but a weekly fondling should stop your wheels from coming off.

 

put some locktite on them. they won't work loose after that.

 

locktite you say, lol.......is that something like that teflon tape you put on plumbing, or is it like a liquid/paste. Thanks I will get some today, because that was horrible. Like someone choking my car.

 

Same thing happened to me very often when I had the steeda short ram. Got tired of it so I customed my own from the stock tube. Problem solved... with my steeda one the filter would not stay on or the tube would come off the TB, never failed. It was always one or the other.

Glad you found it thou. cause even if the MAF can sense just a bit of the air flow, it will not act funny, and you will be sucking in unfiltered air. (not sure how long mine did this, just glad nothing serious.)

 

yeah, I noticed dirt specks on my throttle body valve, the white part......so I'm paranoid now. It was only that loose for maybe a day at the most. But I'm still squeezing my check paranoid because I don't want to f'up my warranty.

 

Locktite is a liquid...there are different strengths for different purposes...great product!

 

k, I will go take a gander. thanks.

 

Loctite:
Blue = I might want to unscrew this later.
Red=This bitch is never coming off.

Available at The Home Depot

I check my nuts several times a day. It's a personal thing though... thank you very much.

 

Are you talking about the nut/rubber spacer that mounts the lower part of the intake by the filter or the hose clamp on the coupler on the TB ?

 

I believe he's speaking of his lower nuts. []

 

I believe he's speaking of his lower nuts. []

Best nut joke yet! Locktite is a bitch to get undone, have to heat it up so much!

-Ryan

 

I believe he's speaking of his lower nuts. []

hahaha ,

Dude.. he walked right into that one.

 

I never had an issue with that nut or any clamps coming loose.
As long as you put that lock washer on before the nut, it shouldn't come loose if the nut is on tight.

 

lol, yeah the lower one that mounts thru the frame hole. I didn't install the washer the first time on the nut side.....so it just worked loose from the vibration and then when it popped out the mount hole, all the weight was on the ruber hose clamp and it too slowly worked loose.....if it wasn't for the splash guard I might have ran it over, then I would be pissed.

No, the hose clamps near the TB are doing fine. But I have everything on their extra tight now...and yeah, I was a moron for not installing the washer the first time. Only I can screw up a CAI install....lol

And thanks for telling me to get the blue kind of locktite. [thumb]

 

Me neither my lower nut with rubber has been tight since the first day installing the intake.

 

Hey, Tim. So what you're saying is you busted a nut?

LMAO.

 

KEEP THIS THREAD ON TOPIC OR IT'S GOING TO BE CLOSED DOWN

 

wow, no puns are allowed fellas. But yeah, its pretty scary, its no fun babying your car after a scare like this, but I will just get some locktite during lunch, I have the locking washer on it now, and I got my 7/16" socket, so I will just add the locktite and check it whenever I wash the car or whatnot.

 

good luck

 

I used blue loctite on the retaining screw for my intake when I installed it. Haven't had any issues.

 

i had that same problem Tim ! except mine was loose for like a couple weeks before i noticed it. i had a CEL that i coulnd figure out until one day on the highway, it started choking and turned off. I poped the hood and noticed it my intake of hanging off. I will look into that locktite tho..

and wuts up with the mod threats ?? cant joke around a lil ?? geeez

 

my steeda intake's never came loose[nutkick] but, when you put the top shield on the intake, the screw in the back that holds it in place striped the threads[nutkick]. i don't know what the thing is that the screw goes into, but i don't like the fact that i have a stripped screw now [nutkick][]

 

glad I am not the only one! But now I am worried about the fact that my CEL never came on. So that doesn't make me feel safe and secure, I wonder if my oil pressure light or overheating light would come on if I needed to know that useful bit of information?!!

 

From what mine has done, when there is something that really requires your attention, it will let you know. Right then.

I was driving down the freeway and she decided that she was done with her upper radiator hose and all of the coolent.

The CEL was on within 2 seconds of the noise.

 

and wuts up with the mod threats ?? cant joke around a lil ?? geeez

That's what I'm sayin, it seems like every other post is magically vanishing overnight. C'mon now we can't even have the slightest jokes in threads before we have the big Canadian thread police in our face. [~]