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Ray, there was a bunch of stuff discussed on SCOF regarding this. Something to do with using the stock bolts. The upgraded parking brake mechanism is essentially a "disc brake" inserted at the driveshaft. This acts as a spacer of sorts, thus using the stock bolts don't provide enough grab on the threaded section. Also, the shoulders on the stock bolts are apparently configured in such a manner that they can work themselves loose, even with liberal doses of red loctite. One SPFer had the driveshaft literally explode through the floorboard, which luckily resulted in no injury but it did a number on the transmission tunnel and the DS safety loop that is already there. I'm doing a terrible job explaining the technical disfunctionalities with regard to using the wrong bolts. All I know is that the guru's on SCOF came up with a fix and shared it on that forum. I'm pretty sure it was also shared with SPF management.
I thought I had copied some of this into my home grown SPF manual, but I can't seem to locate it right now.
-Dean #747
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