Kelvin et al,
OK, I believe you guys about towing a wire wheel car backward.
However there is something that has always bugged me about this. Back in
the old days Chrysler used right handed thread lugs on one side of their cars
and left haned thread lugs on the other side. The theroy being, I suppose,
the same as the knock off that they would not come loose when driving. OK
fine, I'll buy that. Every other car maker in the world only uses right hand
thread studs on both sides of the car. Now since we don't see the road
littered with wheels off just one side of all the cars made EXCEPT Chryslers,
and LBC's with wires, it must mean that the Left handed threads aren't as
necessary on cars as Chrysler thought.
Agreed?
So why do knock offs come off when towed backward? On a car with all right
handed thread lugs, at any one time, half of them are going in the "wrong"
direction and should be comming loose. I can tell you from personal
experience that if lug nuts get a little loose the studs (all of them) will
break. Ask me how I know this<G>. The only answer I can think of is that a
properly torqued fastner won't come loose. Am I missing something here?
Not trying to start a flame war, just want to understand.
Rick Ewald
67 MGB
In a message dated 4/20/99 4:30:24 PM SA Eastern Standard Time,
doddk@mossmotors.com writes:
> > DO NOT DO THIS WITH A WIRE WHEEL CAR! Towing a wire wheel car
> > backwards will
> > cause the knockoffs to loosen and spin off.
>
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