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Originally Posted by m4gician  When I say angled pressure, it was more of an accidental thing and to illustrate my point it's like going over a panel that's more organic than flat and the pad starts to jump and move around like crazy. While trying to get it under control that's when I applied the angled pressure.
I always tried to stay perpendicular, but anyways, you mentioned a double washer, my flex only has a single washer. |
I see now what you mean
We are talking about two different things then. When I sometimes say angled pressure what I have in mind is offset/uneven pressure that results in bp being under the angle to housing, one edge of it being brought closer to housing.
All Flex's come with single washer. I have added second washer myself after I have done pre-inspection of my first Flex. I think I have described detailed reasons behind it at few places (MOL for sure, I think here and CorvetteForum too).
Short version of it is that from my small previous experiences in other manufacturing areas (computer rackmount cases) I know that variances affect final fit and tolerances. Most common problems with bolts and holes was that sometimes bolt was just so slightly longer and/or hole was just so slightly shallower that it made the difference between perfect fit and not so perfect fit, or even huge headache when both happen at the same time and then propagate.
In other words bolts on those cases were "bottoming out" preventing perfect tight fit.
One of the ways to deal with this "after the fact" is by increasing distance of bolt's head from the surface where possible. Simplest way to do that is by adding washer. So I added washer. I would not be able to do this on old style bp that does not have foam as that would make bolt's head protrude above bp's surface. However, on new style foam gives you safety margin needed.
This made it VERY tight for me.
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