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Re: nut size needed

To: sfisher@wsl.dec.com (Captain Capsaicine)
Subject: Re: nut size needed
From: pwcs.StPaul.GOV!phile@medtron.medtronic.COM (Philip J Ethier)
Date: Thu, 7 May 92 8:32:44 CDT
>Note that the right-hand nut is reverse threaded so that it
doesn't come off under driving torque (same as wire wheel nuts).

Nope.  The nut on the LEFT side of the car has the left-hand threads.  You
can make sure on this, as there is enough of the threads showing to see which
way they go.  I believe this is the opposite of the wire-wheel nuts, but I 
am a little fuzzy on that.

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