Loose suspension nut

[GORDON HUMMEL]

Recently doing my pretrip inspection, it was noticed that the nut that holds the transverse torque rod to the axle, DS, was loose. You could actually rotate the washer. Ridewell recommends torquing all components every 25K miles, but somehow I don't think that is on most peoples list.

Ridewell lists this part as a sway bar ????? and on a car it would be a panhard rod. This is the part that attaches to the frame on the PS & the drive axle on the DS.

Something else to add to checklists

[rheavn]

Thanks Gordon,
That is a great tip! Does any one have the torque specs for a '95 to '04 Newell? One area that Country Coach did a better job than Newell was things like torque specs were right in the owner's manual.

[GORDON HUMMEL]

torque specs for the Ridewell components

[rheavn]

Thanks Gordon,
This forum is invaluable. Unfortunately that is the second Ridewell sticker that is not mounted to my chassis.