That's the second time I've heard about that happening
Jon
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> On Nov 7, 2016, at 9:24 AM, Wayne <waschu2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My friend with his recently acquired 1953 BN-1 had a scary event yesterday.
> The car has traveled about 800 miles since we put in a Toyota gearbox, disk
> brake conversion and new Minator wheels. While traveling on the highway at 70
> MPH the Right front wheel started making noise. He got off the next exit
> thinking a wheel bearing problem or a loose knock-off and found two of the
> bolts holding the alloy wheel to the spline hub adapter were missing their
> nuts and the rest were loose. We are now going to take all five wheels apart
> and Loctite the wheel hardware. Checking the other wheels we found several
> bolts with low torque or loose hardware. Moss is going to get us the
> Manufactures torque for the bolts and probably replace the wheel due to the
> missing hardware and elongated holes. If you run these wheels I would put a
> socket on the nuts and check them for torque.
>
>
> Wayne
> <Minator-alloy-splined-centre-wheel-300x273.jpg>
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