On Monday 11 January 2010 08:50:38 pm Dwayne Cooper wrote:
> Gang:
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> Out driving today (Southern California weather) and nearly lost a wheel. I
> heard a thunking noise and pulled over to find that the lug nuts on my left
> rear were loose. I haven't done any work on the car in quite a while and
> have been driving a fair bit so I don't know how they came to be loose. I
> suppose they could have been poorly tightened after some forgotten
> maintenence but that must have been a while ago. I have standard steel
> wheels and lugnuts -- do these things tend to loosen over time or is it
> just me?
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> Thanks (and lucky),
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> Dwayne
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> '74 tr6
>
Dwayne,
Yes you were lucky!
It is my guess that the nuts were not tightened. They way they are designed
with the taper they should never come loose. I have stock wheels on my 58 TR3
with the stock nuts and every time I need to remove a wheel, they are as tight
as when I put the tire on.
There is a torque setting somewhere in the manual but I use the stock brace to
tighten and always tighten until I hear that squeal sound. It takes a hefty
pull with the tire on the ground.
Bob
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