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More parts that don't fit

To: tigers@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: More parts that don't fit
From: "Doug Leithauser" <dleit@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 05:11:12 PDT
I had an interesting experience the other day with one of my LAT 70 
wheels. I had been getting a vibration at hioghway speeds that was 
getting worse. It felt like something in the front end was developing 
play, generally considered to be a bad thing, so I jacked up the front 
of the Tiger for a quick inspection & discovered that my left front 
wheel was loose. Well, I thought, this was stupid of my to let this 
happen, but a moment with a torque wrench & I'm ready to roll. thats 
when I found out the lug nuts were tight, just the wheel was loose. It 
seems that on this particuler wheel the lug nuts bottomed out before 
they clamped down on the wheel. I had to shorten the shank of the 
lugnuts, then shorten all 4 studs to allow the shorter lugs to screw 
down all the way to the hub. Now my vibration is gone & no other wheels 
have tried to fall off. These are the same wheels, lugnuts & studs that 
I have on the other 3 corners. So much for interchangeable parts.

Doug Leithauser


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