<VV> Check your damn lug nuts!

[Charles Lee]

Check your damn lug nuts, even if someone else "already did"!!!

Yes, another story from the vaults ...

I once had a Vair in storage and put new tires on her for a 500 mile tow (on wheels, not a trailer)

I tried to check the lug nuts but the shop manager got highly insulted that I did not trust him to have done that.

So, I stopped and figured I'd check them at the first rest area (he was right on the entrance ramp)

Long story short, the R/R wheel came off before I got there, and nearly went through another car's windshield, leaving a "skid mark" on his hood.

It also tore up the rear fender as it came off, but that was the least of it!


Charles Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: VirtualVairs [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Seth Emerson via VirtualVairs
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2018 10:46 AM
To: hharpo at earthlink.net; virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Lug Nuts ect.

Not every 50 miles <grin> 50 miles after installation. (you joker!) - Seth



Subject: Re: <VV> Lug Nuts ect.

Every 50 miles! I am way behind

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> On Sep 30, 2018, at 9:25 PM, Seth Emerson via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:
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> Almost all tire and wheel companies - and installers - suggest you check the torque on the lug nuts after 50 or so miles.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kevin nash via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> To: Hugo Miller <Hugo at aruncoaches.co.uk>; virtualvairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Sun, Sep 30, 2018 1:11 pm
> Subject: Re: <VV> Lug Nuts ect.
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> Its because I have old (stock) rims… every time the wheels come off, and the
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> Lug nuts get re-torqued, the actual lug nut pressure on their seats will not
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> be quite even…consequently there’s going to be one or more on every single wheel that are taking more of the pressure than the others, and after
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> putting some miles on the wheels, the dirt, rust, loading and unloading of
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> the lug nut seats tend to reduce the highest lug nut pressures, and when that happens, the lug nuts are looser than they were than when the wheel was installed. I seriously doubt that the lug nuts actually “loosened”, meaning rotating counter clockwise on their own from where they were when the wheel was initially installed, and I know darned well how tight
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> I torque the lug nuts, so the only possible explanation is that because of
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> the numerous less than ideal surfaces, the wheel gets re settled and re-seated, and the lug nuts need to get re-torqued, simple as that.
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> I had forgot to re-check the lug nuts, I probably should have checked them
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> 100 miles after the wheels went on, which was probably sometime near the end of June.
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> ________________________________
> From: Hugo Miller <Hugo at aruncoaches.co.uk>
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2018 12:46:38 PM
> To: kevin nash; virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> Lug Nuts ect.
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> I would want to find out how that happened.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kevin nash via VirtualVairs
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2018 6:52 PM
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re:  Lug Nuts ect.
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> All: Because I recently had all four wheels off my car doing work on the
> brakes and replacing the front wheel bearings (among other things), and
> because of the discussion of lug nuts falling off, I thought it would be a
> REAL good idea to check the torque on my lug nuts. OUCH! 3 out of 4 wheels
> had all 4 lug nuts LOOSE! Then, if that wasn't enough, I thought perhaps I
> should check the front wheel bearings... only the drivers side front wheel
> was 2 wrench flats loose, the other was fine. You guys saved my bacon!!
> Kevin Nash
> 63 Turbo, EFI, Daily driver
> coolest alternative engine
> cooling fan on the planet!
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