Budd lug woes

[Joey Mack]

Yes Paul . My 2002 Isuzu NPR was this way as well

[Geoff Weeks]

Towing my Dart oil field truck backwards from Ill to Iowa I had some lugs loosen. (never happens with spokes!) I have seen 1st hand there is some truth to that.

Edited July 29 by Geoff Weeks

[mrsmackpaul]

If we think about the normal old family car, sedan or station wagon

The wheels that go missing when driving along are always on the LHS

This rarely happens today, maybe the taper on the nut has changed or maybe tyre service places doing them up with rattle guns makes them tighter than before

Dunno, but it was always the LHS going AWOL

 

Paul

[mechohaulic]

6 hours ago, Geoff Weeks said:

Towing my Dart oil field truck backwards from Ill to Iowa I had some lugs loosen. (never happens with spokes!) I have seen 1st hand there is some truth to that.

does that mean I spoke the truth ..?????

[mrsmackpaul]

I believe so 

[harrybarbon]

20 hours ago, mrsmackpaul said:

If we think about the normal old family car, sedan or station wagon

The wheels that go missing when driving along are always on the LHS

This rarely happens today, maybe the taper on the nut has changed or maybe tyre service places doing them up with rattle guns makes them tighter than before

Dunno, but it was always the LHS going AWOL

 

Paul

I know this very well. 12 yrs ago I had stopped first car waiting for lights to change at 1 am one cold night I was in my Toyota Prado to turn left onto a major Melbourne Rd. I saw a Toyota Land Cruiser towing a loaded tandem axle car trailer coming thru the intersection going in the same direction I was turning into, he was doing at about 50 mph and I notice the left rear wheel missing as it passed me. Within 1-2 seconds I heard this massive bang to my right side. The wheel hit my right front door just behind the mirror, smashed the window and bounced off. Had I been 6-10 inches forward it would have hit my right side and head. My fear, shock and adrenaline kicked in so fast, I was chasing the wagon and trailer, I flashed my lights hand on the horn but the bastards speed away. I chased them and they turned into side streets like the movies, I dont know how they didnt roll with the trailer and there were no cars around in the dead of night. I eventually forced them to stop. I went off my head my ex was in the car with a friend they said I was crazy. They were  4towel heads going to clean factories etc doing cleaning jobs. I got their details photo of the car and tralier plates.

I reported to the police and I did track down the owner of the business. The police did ZERO. The owner paid all costs to repair and apologised. Karma I found out. About 12 months later I was in the country and I happened to meet a guy I knew, he was the uncle of the owner and he told me that the owners wife and daughter were stopped at pedestrian lights in a country town named Swan Hill, waiting to cross the road, out of nowhere a big truck wheel came flying towards them and just scrapped them. A few inches forward and both would have been dead. I asked my guy to pass on a message to his nephew about Karma, get serious about his vehicle service and the sh..heads he employs.    

[Brandt]

The 1 that I cut with a wiz wheel was a fail with the tool. I got my portable welder going and put a nut on it. It broke the weld several times before I backed the outer nut off and welded on the end too. Then it came loose.

The other one the tool kept slipping and got the outer nut weld action too. Before welding I drilled 3 holes in the inner lug nut flare and gave it a good dose of PB Blaster. That one broke loose easier. 

New tires with a few inner/outer lug nuts and I'm all set!!  Thanx guys!

 

I had an old Dodge Dart (1965) that had me stumped until an ol' timer told me that they were LH thread on the left side of the car.