Camber Plate bolt getting misthreaded

[azsvtcobra]

I drive my car to the track and change the camber at the track. I always jack up the side of the car when I loosen the bolts and set the camber. I always use a torque wrench and never go above 35ftlbs of torque. I am using maximum motorsports camber setup. Somehow the threads get mucked up on one of the bolts when I tighten it back down. It's happened twice now and it sucks cause I have to grind out the old bolt from the plate and have someone else weld in a new one. I've even gone to grade 8 nuts/bolts and it still happened.
Anyone else had this problem?
Would using red loctite work instead of having the bolt head welded to the plates.

 

[Blkkbgt]

First off the required tq spec for the nuts is actually 32 ftlbs, I don't think the extra 3 ftlbs is causing your issue though. Have you taken a look at the plate that the bolt passes through?

Are you talking about threding the plate and using red lock tight to hold it in place? If so I don't see that working because 1 the plate isn't thick enough to thread correctly and 2 eventualy the lock tight will give out when loosening the nuts.

 

[MFE]

Stop using a torque wrench. I had the same problem years ago, installed a new one, stopped using a torque wrench on them, and have never had a problem since. Most torque wrenches aren't accurate that low anyway, and all they really need is about 2.5 white knuckles with a regular wrench.