[Mgs] losing a wheel

[Max Heim]

Scary. Don't trust those newfangled lug nuts myself.  Can't tighten them
with a hammer <g>.

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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires



on 4/30/10 7:43 AM, Aaron Whiteman at awhitema at panix.com wrote:

> So last Sunday I took a 200 mile drive or so, which was mostly just a hoot.
> 
> http://www.panix.com/~awhitema/gpsfiles/map2.php?year=2010&file=10.04.25
> 
> 
> However, the portion of the trip between Cottonwood and Culdesac was rather
> less enjoyable.  I lost a wheel.  Those stories you hear about seeing your own
> wheel pass you as you go down the road... yeah, been there.  Fortunately, it
> was a rear wheel.
> 
> I did eventually find the wheel, which is (just) serviceable and needs to be
> replaced, but I got home with no additional troubles.
> 
> I last looked at the wheel nuts in November, shortly after I put the wheels
> back on the car.  Nobody else has touched them, discounting saboteurs.  When I
> checked along the road, all 3 remaining wheels where more loose than I'd
> expect.  They're all plenty tight now!
> 
> I'm using the 15x5.5" KN minilite replicas (Moss 456-045 ?), which IIRC don't
> have hardened seats.  Is that a potential factor?
> 
> 
> The wheel as it sits on the car now:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronwhiteman/4552913701/
> 
> --
> Aaron Whiteman