Left Hand Wheel Bolt Needed
Hi All, I have an old Fleetwood trailer from the 70's and on the left side, the wheel bolts screw in, but they are all left handed, so they screw in by turning left instead of right. Well, when I w...
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BurbMan wrote:
Had a 1970 Plymouth Fury that had left hand thread on the drivers side wheels. The theory was that the rotation of the wheel would work to tighten the nuts and keep them from coming off. I think the engineers figured out that it was more trouble than it was worth.
It goes back to the days of wagon wheels when there was just one big nut in the middle holding the wheel on. If you didn't use a left handed one on the correct side the nut would turn it's self backwards and the wheel would fall off.
I though it was the passenger side but, it's been a lot of years since I saw one and I may have gotten confused.
