<VV> LH lug nuts

[Hugo Miller]

Haha those plastic arrows make it easier to find the nuts in the grass 
after they have fallen off, but that's about all. I use Ric-clips on 
mine - a figure-of-eight spring clip that wraps around a pair of nuts 
and grips onto them. I use two clips per wheel, i.e. four nuts secured. 
That is enough to hold the wheel on if the others work loose (which has 
never happened yet). There is a plastic equivalent in the US - 
Zafety-lug or some such stupid name.

On 2020-03-31 03:10, Joel McGregor via VirtualVairs wrote:
> The common (wrong) rule of thumb here is to put them on dry also.
> People claim they fall off if you lube them.  Of course that is wrong
> thinking.
> I would guess most air impact wrenches get them way too tight since
> they are usually rated at 90 psi and 750+ ft lbs.
> Wheels do fall off here.  The last time I saw a truck wheel service
> ticket it had a place that had to be signed stating that the driver
> would retorque within 150 miles.  I also see lots of trucks with the
> plastic arrows on the nuts so you can tell if any have moved with a
> quick visual inspection.
>
> Joel McGregor
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: <VV> LH lug nuts
>
> That's why I prefer to tighten them by feel rather than use a torque
> wrench - I reckon I can tell whether a nut is stiff on the threads,
> whereas a torque wrench cannot. At any rate, I've never yet lost a
> wheel or had a lug nut come loose.
> And that is the problem - practically everybody I know in England
> thinks that if they fit the lug nuts dry, they will stand less chance
> of coming loose. So if they use a torque wrench, quite a bit of the
> effort will be absorbed by the friction on the threads instead of
> stretching the stud so it acts like a spring clamping everything
> together (not beyond its elastic limit, obviously). And then they
> can't figure out why their wheels have come loose.
> And yet, I have watched tire fitters at truck stops in the United
> States fit a wheel to a truck with an air gun, let the jack down and
> out they drive. I once asked a fitter what torque the gun was set to 
> -
> he shrugged and said "120 psi"! And yet truck wheels in the States
> don't seem to fall off, which I find surprising if that is how they
> fit them.
>
>
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