<VV> Wheel nuts

[Hugo Miller]

### Some people think the tighter they do the nuts up, the less likely they 
are to come undone. In the process they stretch the studs beyond their 
elastic limit & weaken them permanently. It always scares me to see people 
doing lug nuts up with a massive air gun at full pressure! I like to feel 
them going up.


-----Original Message----- 
From: Joel McGregor via VirtualVairs
Sent: Saturday, December 2, 2017 4:12 AM
To: Virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re:  Wheel nuts

One problem with LH threads is that most air impacts that I have seen 
detailed specs on are stronger turning left than they are right.  This 
usually works out so you can't tighten something so much that it can't get 
it loose but it doesn't work on LH threads.  They tighten with more torque 
than they can loosen.
I have very limited experience with LH on one side vehicles a 1980 C800 Ford 
and a 1997 International 4900.  Neither seemed to be tighter on one side 
than the other after sitting many years.  They were stupid tight though.  I 
had to buy a 3/4 impact and run a 3/4" air hose.  It claims 1700 ft lbs at 
90 psi and my line pressure runs about 160.  I doubt it is that powerful and 
I still had to use a torch on the International.  I use anti-seize on them 
and 450lbs of torque now.
Joel McGregor

-----Original Message-----
From: VirtualVairs [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of 
Smitty via VirtualVairs
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2017 1:59 PM
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: <VV> Wheel nuts

I only have my own experience to go by , but have only had one wheel get 
loose in 70 years of driving.  If there is a worry wart really concerned 
enough to try this it might make him feel better.  A lot of older cars and 
most trucks have/had left hand thread lugs on one side of the vehicle to 
keep the fasteners tight.  You can change the studs and try this.  If you 
don't think it make s a difference then you haven't worked in an industrial 
truck facility and had to break loose the lugs after 20 or 30 thousand miles 
on the road.  It was common to jump up and down on an 8 ft Johnson bar bar 
or use a 1 inch drive air wrench to get them off.

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