Don't forget to re torque those lug nuts!
My 30 year old nephew came over the other night to borrow some fishing gear. He showed me the damage to his pride and joy 2011 lifted chevy truck. He had new rims and tires put on at a local shop. ...
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I have a hair-raising story about lug nutz. In my jeeping dayz i went on a trip to the Rubicon with a friend. I was in my trusty CJ8 with stuff, no top, no doors, windshield folded down on the trail;
and he was in his rare 1988 MJ Jeep Comanche One Metric Ton long bed pickup on his very first hardcore jeep trip. His Jeep was amazingly nimble on the rocks.
He had lockers and a 6" lift and easily made the trail. On the way out, we stopped in a little burg near the trailhead and had his tires rotated as they had been out-of-balance on the way up the 99. A young kid, probably in high school quickly did the deed...or so we thought.
We were going 65 mph south down 99 at about dusk. I was in the lead and he was back about 10 car lengths to the rear in the center lane to miss the truck traffic. All of a sudden, I looked in the side view mirror to see a large corona of sparks emitting from the driver's side front wheel of his pickup; or where the front wheel used to be. The sparks were the result of the brake rotor being ground down about 2 inches. Love the suspension articulation. The sight of that corona of sparks acted as an antipersonnel device as cars were swerving hither and yon. He somehow made it over to the side of the freeway while I was running defense in front of him and we both eased over to the side. The errant tire rolled right on by us and stopped against the freeway right of way fence. A closer inspection told the tale. ONE lug hole was completely hogged out. My guess is there was one lug nut holding the wheel on for those 75 miles of so of freeway before it let loose. Luckily no one was injured. The story gets worse. He was using 33x950-15, tall and narrow BFG mud tires. The tire was done on the rolling wheel and so was the wheel. We were at a small town along 99. I had to leave him to get back to work the next day. He had to stay there three days waiting for a tire, wheel and new brake parts to show up. He missed 3 days of work waiting and was eventually let go as a result. As soon as he got home he put his nice truck up on the block to be sold. The pix above were taken as he was waiting for a customer to buy it. All in all, it was a sad ending to a really great trip to the Rubicon.
jefe
and he was in his rare 1988 MJ Jeep Comanche One Metric Ton long bed pickup on his very first hardcore jeep trip. His Jeep was amazingly nimble on the rocks.
He had lockers and a 6" lift and easily made the trail. On the way out, we stopped in a little burg near the trailhead and had his tires rotated as they had been out-of-balance on the way up the 99. A young kid, probably in high school quickly did the deed...or so we thought.
We were going 65 mph south down 99 at about dusk. I was in the lead and he was back about 10 car lengths to the rear in the center lane to miss the truck traffic. All of a sudden, I looked in the side view mirror to see a large corona of sparks emitting from the driver's side front wheel of his pickup; or where the front wheel used to be. The sparks were the result of the brake rotor being ground down about 2 inches. Love the suspension articulation. The sight of that corona of sparks acted as an antipersonnel device as cars were swerving hither and yon. He somehow made it over to the side of the freeway while I was running defense in front of him and we both eased over to the side. The errant tire rolled right on by us and stopped against the freeway right of way fence. A closer inspection told the tale. ONE lug hole was completely hogged out. My guess is there was one lug nut holding the wheel on for those 75 miles of so of freeway before it let loose. Luckily no one was injured. The story gets worse. He was using 33x950-15, tall and narrow BFG mud tires. The tire was done on the rolling wheel and so was the wheel. We were at a small town along 99. I had to leave him to get back to work the next day. He had to stay there three days waiting for a tire, wheel and new brake parts to show up. He missed 3 days of work waiting and was eventually let go as a result. As soon as he got home he put his nice truck up on the block to be sold. The pix above were taken as he was waiting for a customer to buy it. All in all, it was a sad ending to a really great trip to the Rubicon.
jefe
