Anyone ever encounter this before?

[Kenny Boxster]

Originally Posted by Crono0001

http://986forum.com/forums/general-discussions/41712-axle-falling-off.html

Happened to me. Not sure what the cause was. Stopped at a light and about to take off when I heard a 'clunk'. Very scary.

This is what happened to me. Seems to be the textbook example of axle problems. Interestingly enough, I barely touched the throttle.

[BYprodriver]

Originally Posted by Kenny Boxster

This is what happened to me. Seems to be the textbook example of axle problems. Interestingly enough, I barely touched the throttle.

Use new bolts with Loctite medium blue. The oem bolts are grade 10.9

[sweeper]

I have not had this particular incident happen to me-yet, but I have broken many bolts and one method that works well (depending on the surrounding metal/material and flammables) is to weld a nut onto the broken bolt and back it out.

In this situation the the bolt (or whats left of it) is probably not seized- so the need to get the bolt real hot is not important. The method should still work just by tacking a nut onto the sheared remains of the bolt.

I use needle nose vice grips and a nut small enough that the hole will not overhang the bolt- clean the area with a non-flammable and wire brush- hold the nut over the bolt and tack it in place (two people may make the job easier) while holding it- position the nut so you can give it a partial turn without taking the vice grips off- take off the vice grips and finish with a ratchet- never use your bare hands....or you can but you will only do it once.

Just did it the other day on a water pump bolt on my BMW- took like 2 minutes.