Thread: Checked your lug nuts lately?

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I had the lug nuts loosen up on my Elcamino; I could hear and feel something at the rear wheels. The night before I had the Elcamino backed up to a 6' chain link fence with the privacy slats that the high winds were trying to blow it over. By the truck going back and forth with the brake on and in park just a little when the wind would try to push against the fence, it was little by little backing off the lug nuts. I was really trying to save the fence; I had my #9 Kline’s and wire tying the fence to the post. My Wife said let it go as she was going to the grocery store, I said I would wait but I didn't big mistake. I pulled the wire with my pliers at face level and when the wind was stronger then my hold on the pliers I busted myself in the nose. Boy you talk about hurt and pain. When my Wife got home from the store I was on the couch with an ice pack on my nose. She just had to say I told you to wait. To make it worst the guys on the job couldn't resist asking if my Wife gave me two black eyes, when you get hit so hard in the nose you sometime will get two black eyes to go with the busted nose. I was lucky the rear wheels didn't come off on the Dan Ryan expressway going to Chicago.
It is a good idea to test them once in awhile. Usually when I have had tires put on at Tire Store, they use an air impact wrench and I have a hard time getting them off.

Richard