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Wheels falling off of cars

GordonW said:
None of the impact drivers they had at the time back in the 1960s, would budge the darn things. I guess that's one place where technology HAS gotten better?

Regards,
Gordon.
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I don't know. This one is a single anvil gun. It hits real slow. and hard. A long time between hits. It spins up then hits.
I have a twin hammer gun that hits faster but with much less power.

It was painful when the 1 inch breaker bar broke with a big bang and me jumping up and down on it.
 
People with aluminum wheels.
It's important to work the nut back and forth under light load to lap them in a few times with a hand wrench before you torque them down.
 
You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel (Luccile). Those were my dads words when the garage forgot to tighten the lugs on his 33" wheels on his CJ5 and his front drivers wheel went rolling by right before the front end dropped.

I still don't really know the song, but Ill never forget his quote.

 
quiet said:
People with aluminum wheels.
It's important to work the nut back and forth under light load to lap them in a few times with a hand wrench before you torque them down.
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I never had to do this on motorcycles rear wheel (aluminum of course). Just run the nuts on, and tighten to 45# first time around for all four, and then repeat once more with final torque at 75#. I have done the same procedure for cars with aluminum wheels.
 
Last Wednesday I was driving home and around a bend there were three vehicles parked off the side of the highway in the opposite lane. Saw people milling around on my side of the road so the vehicle in front of me and I both slowed for safety.

The people were looking around in the tall weeds for something, then I looked at the vehicles parked on the other side to see the lead vehicle, a new Ford pickup, had lost it's front driver's side wheel.

The people were hunting for the wayward wheel.
 
kwayde said:
Last Wednesday I was driving home and around a bend there were three vehicles parked off the side of the highway in the opposite lane. Saw people milling around on my side of the road so the vehicle in front of me and I both slowed for safety.

The people were looking around in the tall weeds for something, then I looked at the vehicles parked on the other side to see the lead vehicle, a new Ford pickup, had lost it's front driver's side wheel.

The people were hunting for the wayward wheel.
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Someone forgot to tighten the lug nuts.
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It happened to us in 1982! My wife, SIL and I were in my 1975 Cutlass Supreme on an expressway at 1am when we heard a strange noise and vibration. It stopped within a few seconds, and went silent. A moment later there was a loud thud, and I watched my front left tire go bounding down the expressway! I pulled the car a over to the shoulder on three wheels, ran up the road a ways and retrieved my tire, and discovered the hub cap still on and all the lug nuts inside....they had all come loose. I rolled the tire back to the car, jacked it up, installed the tire, and went on our merry way. We had a pretty good laugh over it, but it left a nasty dent on the fender.
 
Never had to use it on a lug nut, but I have a 3:1 torque multiplier with 1/2" drive input an 3/4" output. I think it's rated up to 1000-1100ft lb output.
 
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