Check your lug nuts!
While traveling for the holidays I seen the wheel come flying off a fiver right in front of me! It went bouncing off the road and down an off ramp! I got up next to the guy and started flagging ...
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DutchmenSport wrote:
I check mine periodically, they are always so tight already, when I put a T wrench on them, I can't budge anything. So I know they are good. Maybe if I were 30 years younger I could budge them, but no longer. So, that's tight enough for me!
I had all 5 lug studs fail and lost a wheel a number of years ago. I think the problem was that I did the final torque (after inspecting the breaks) with the wheel on the ground to keep it from spinning. I think that it were not centered on the hub correct and while the nuts were torqued the wheel was not tight.
