Is there room enough to double nut the bolt, and lock them together?

Eric wrote:
>
> disallow wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > My girlfriends car is an 87 prelude. This sunday, the
> > balljoint popped on the driver side. It shredded the
> > inner CV boot in the process, but that is not why I am
> > here. We have had the car apart several times, to do
> > trannie/clutch related work. The problem is, the lower
> > ball joint on the driver side is obviously not OEM, and
> > does not have a nut on it that can accept a cotter pin.
> > The stud is not OEM size, so I can't even go to honda to
> > get the nut.
> >
> > It is a Nylon locking nut, and the even funnier thing is
> > that it takes a 3/4" socket to take it off. (Standard
> > socket on an import?? should be metric, no?)
>
> 3/4" is roughly the same as 19mm. Check the threads with a thread pitch
> gauge, they're probably metric as well.
>
> > Anyways, I have searched up and down this city for a fine
> > thread Nylon locking nut of the same size, to no avail. Nobody makes it,
> > according to all the bolt guys here. I even talked to a manufacturer,
> > and he said he could do it, but I would have to buy 10000 of them....
>
> Forget the nylon lock nut. It's failed once already, why repeat this
> situation?
>
> > My question is, does anyone have any bright ideas as to
> > I could fasten the old nut (or a new non-locking one)
> > without actually replacing the balljoint? I was thinking
> > of drilling a hole in the ball joint stud to make my own
> > cotter pin hole. Would that work?
>
> You should be able to get a castle nut which would allow you to use a cotter
> key. You could drill the current ball joint stud if it doesn't have holes
> in it already. Lining up the holes could be tricky so I would use a castle
> nut as a drilling guide.
>
> > How about my even more desperate solution, spot weld the
> > nut to the ball joint stud. Then if we ever have to do the
> > balljoint, we'll just have to chisel off the weld, maybe
> > have to cut the old ball joint. (and replace it at that point).
> >
> > The car has 200k kms on it, so we don't want to spend a
> > tonne of cash on it, any ideas would be welcome! (other
> > than just "replace the ball joint". I am looking for
> > something a little more creative...)
>
> Red Loctite might hold it cut I wouldn't put my complete trust in it
> especially with something as critical as a ball joint.
>
> Eric