[TR] TR2/3 wire wheel adapters - frightening experience.

[glemon at neb.rr.com]

I had this happen on my Healey 100 a couple times (I felt it as loose before wheel came off, right rear on the Healey ISTR), no issues with other wire wheel cars I have had including an MGB GT and TR4A.

It almost seems like some combinations of nuts,hubs and studs don't tend to stay tight as well as others, but certainly something it pays to check each time you have the wheels off (or periodically if you don't pull them much).


Greg Lemon
TR250

---- Randall <TR3driver at ca.rr.com> wrote: 
>  
> > Clearly a case of needing to do more routine checking - 
> > especially when 
> > it comes to wheels. Can't figure out why the nuts backed off 
> > - I think 
> > Loctite would be a good idea here.
> 
> I'm not sure about Loctite, but it is definitely important to torque those
> funky double-taper nuts to 65 ft-lb (not the 50 ft-lb used for regular lug
> nuts).  Not just any time you have them off, but every year as part of your
> annual wire wheel maintenance (IMO).
> 
> The physics is a bit hard to explain, but basically because they are right
> hand threads on the left hand side; any tiny bit of motion will eventually
> unscrew the nut!
> 
> I had the same thing happen with Dad's TR3A many decades ago, except I was
> fortunate enough to notice the squirrely handling caused by the adapter
> being almost off the studs before the wheel actually parted company.  Just
> pure luck that two of the nuts were still on the threads when I took an exit
> ramp rather faster than I should have.
> 
> Then the same thing happened again, same car, just a few years ago.  That
> time the wheel did come off, taking the fender with it.
> 
> -- Randall
> 
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