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Oh - it could'a been a LOT worse tho...
Going through town it felt like the road was heaved from frost - but with recent temps? Sped up a bit at the end of town and it felt like my R rear tires were falling off. Not that I had ever had that happen before - mind you. But that's what it felt like.
Pulled into the doughnut shoppe to check it out. Sure enough - 7 broken studs with lone stud having no nut on it a'tall! THEN - to add insult to injury - the place was closed! So there we set - no wheels and no doughnuts! :{
Wifey made some calls while I jacked it up. Found three studs in town - but no nuts. Ordered the rest and replced three studs and robbed three nuts from the other side and drove home... . easy like. Holes in the outside dual were somewhat slotted - but otherwise everything was fine. (That - and I lost my center cap I guess... )
I had just got new tires on it a month ago and it is painfully obvious that these kids don't practice the "Two times around" method!
I could loosen the ones that I needed on the other side with just a regular length 1/2" ratchet. I tightened the rest with a bit of pipe and got at least an 1/8 turn.
This is the first time that I can think of that I have let someone else mount my rims. I always have two sets of tires for seasonal purposes - and have just had them mount the tires and then when the time comes - I would swap rims/tires on the truck. I think I will go back to that method eh?
I couldn't get the same nuts as stock w/o going to the dealer - and they quoted me $24/each for the studs, so I saw no reason to price the nuts there. I opted to go to the 1-1/16" hex nuts and bought an extree wrench to throw in the truck. I put the odd sized nuts on the front where I could get to them with just a combi wrench so that the tire tool could still get the ones off in the duals.
Going through town it felt like the road was heaved from frost - but with recent temps? Sped up a bit at the end of town and it felt like my R rear tires were falling off. Not that I had ever had that happen before - mind you. But that's what it felt like.
Pulled into the doughnut shoppe to check it out. Sure enough - 7 broken studs with lone stud having no nut on it a'tall! THEN - to add insult to injury - the place was closed! So there we set - no wheels and no doughnuts! :{
Wifey made some calls while I jacked it up. Found three studs in town - but no nuts. Ordered the rest and replced three studs and robbed three nuts from the other side and drove home... . easy like. Holes in the outside dual were somewhat slotted - but otherwise everything was fine. (That - and I lost my center cap I guess... )
I had just got new tires on it a month ago and it is painfully obvious that these kids don't practice the "Two times around" method!
I could loosen the ones that I needed on the other side with just a regular length 1/2" ratchet. I tightened the rest with a bit of pipe and got at least an 1/8 turn. This is the first time that I can think of that I have let someone else mount my rims. I always have two sets of tires for seasonal purposes - and have just had them mount the tires and then when the time comes - I would swap rims/tires on the truck. I think I will go back to that method eh?
I couldn't get the same nuts as stock w/o going to the dealer - and they quoted me $24/each for the studs, so I saw no reason to price the nuts there. I opted to go to the 1-1/16" hex nuts and bought an extree wrench to throw in the truck. I put the odd sized nuts on the front where I could get to them with just a combi wrench so that the tire tool could still get the ones off in the duals.
