Thanks for the offer, but I am too far away. I just snugged the studs into the knuckle with a double nut like Brian E says to. Then I tightened the nuts to 130#. 6 out of 8 anyway
![Shake Head :shake_head:](https://board.marlincrawler.com/Smileys/marlin/shake_head.gif)
Thats good to hear about the 6 shooters.
So I am trying to make sense of this, there are:
Steering stud failures
Knuckle cracking in half
Trunnion bearing failures
Do all of these stem from the same thing? I am trying to figure out how all these happen. Or are they just one of those things that when
![Pokinit :pokinit:](https://board.marlincrawler.com/Smileys/marlin/pokinit.gif)
gets gnarly stuff explodes
![Shocking!! :shocking:](https://board.marlincrawler.com/Smileys/marlin/shocking.gif)