<VV> Anti-seize on wheel nuts

[Jay Maechtlen]

On 2/11/2015 9:08 AM, Jim Becker via VirtualVairs wrote:
> That is a disturbingly high percentage.  If you consider that a brake 
> job (or new set of tires or whatever) on the typical tractor involves 
> 10 "truck wheel end disturbances ", that means that 1 in 50 will loose 
> a wheel.  With 10 million large trucks in this country, if half (or 
> even a quarter) of them get their wheels disturbed in a year, you are 
> talking about a lot of flying wheels every day.
>
Good point - and I don't think there are that many wheels bouncing around.
Something about that statistic is fishy.
>
>
> Only 0.2% of truck wheel end disturbances (any reason a wheel is 
> removed and replaced) at the time resulted in a wheel-off. 98% of 
> those wheel-offs occurred within 600 miles.
>
I've seen studs and seating surfaces (passenger vehicle) badly worn on a 
vehicle here in sunny SoCal.
This was after 100-150k miles. I bought it new, so I know it didn't live 
anywhere else.
The wheels didn't seem to have been loose, but the taper seats on the 
wheels were looking bad.
This was an 89 Aerostar.

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Jay Maechtlen
SoCal
'61 2-dr modified w/fiberglass skin,
transverse 3.8 Buick V6 TH440T4 trans

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