Originally Posted by
onehundred80
The brass spacer will get shorter as the screw is tightened, tubes are poor when it comes to compressive loads.
Depending how thick the wall of the tube is it may slowly get loose as the screw comes undone due to vibration. The recommended torque setting will not be maintained, so use some low strength Loctite.
I am pointing out the worst case scenario, it might be OK, but I would not do this.
Even a steel tube is weak, just not so weak as brass.
I don't think that will be a problem but I see your point. I had already planned to use some medium Loctite on it. The brass if you look closely is solid from the thread of the bolt to the edge of the spacer. is about twice the thickness of the wall of the socket. When I removed the OEM on it didn't take much force at all to break it loose so Im guessing the torque pressure is pretty low on this thing.. Also the sensor itself has a brass ring that the bolt tightens against.