Clutch hub nut.......

[Guest]

So it turns out that my clutch has the infamous GS clutch rattle.
Once I got into it I found the even more infamous loose clutch hub nut.
I know that there are other hub nuts out there that are better/harder.
After much reading I found that the general consensus is that the OEM nut is soft and the threads deform.
I have run a tap down my nut and it did not SEEM to be deformed.
So I have a question: Why isn’t this nut loctited?
Cheers

[Nessism]

My guess is that Suzuki figured that with the locking tabs on the washer, loctite is not needed. Using loctite with a stock nut seem like a good idea to me. Wish I thought of that while my engine was apart.

[KiwiGS]

My nice quiet clutch basket.

Cheers

[rapidray]

The problem with Loctite is the splined shaft the nut goes on & the lack of thread surface. The nuts are soft, the threads give, & the only REAL fix is the APE heat treated chromoly nut. Ray.