pishta
I know I'm right....
Nascar has LH lug nuts on these new cars driver side wheels now. Wonder why?
Chrysler had it decades ago. It was a great idea & well worth it from the safety aspect.
It was a lousy idea and added absolutely no extra measure of safety.Chrysler had it decades ago. It was a great idea & well worth it from the safety aspect.
Because they're using a single nut instead of 5 and the larger the nut the more likely it is to get rotational input from the wheel?
You don't need to reverse the direction if you've got a multiple bolt pattern with relatively small diameter lugs. Which is why millions and millions of cars with standard lugs don't have wheels falling off constantly.
They're playin' "Keep up wit F1"
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IRS now also.
Brief time I watched today, 1 pit crew didn't reverse the gun when they go to the left side and either boogered up the nut or the spindle causing severe issues. Driver give the wall a kiss and knocks the RR out of alignment spooky handling to follow.
My 68 ford f-350 has them. Learned my lesson on that truck. I was 30 at the time.Some will never get it.....
It was a safety device & if it saved one life or accident, it was worth it. LH thread on left side tends to self tighten....& keep the wheel on.
I do believe there were others that used the LH threads. VW?
Some will never get it.....
It was a safety device & if it saved one life or accident, it was worth it. LH thread on left side tends to self tighten....& keep the wheel on.
I do believe there were others that used the LH threads. VW?
I never bought into the lug-nuts (5, not center knockoff) coming loose.
The idea of a single knockoff coming loose I can see as it is spinning on the same axis as the wheel and I could see the inertia of the nut (especially with the wings) working it loose.
But a lug nut off center and with virtually no mass, I say show me the engineering report or the calculations, just not buying it. It being so negligible it was probably why it was ultimately dropped.
Alan
You can actually prove it yourself.
If you have a car with LH nuts on the DS, next time you put a wheel on, just finger tighten the nuts.
The wheel will not come off.
Try that with RH nuts on the DS.
The wheel will be off sometime around the second or third corner you go around and will likely be wobbling before that.
Some will never get it.....
It was a safety device & if it saved one life or accident, it was worth it. LH thread on left side tends to self tighten....& keep the wheel on.
I do believe there were others that used the LH threads. VW?
If they are finger tight, there's no wobble.
...and there won't be (unlike RH thread on the left side) because they will tend to tighten (or at least maintain the current level of torque).
I stand by my statement.
It's happened to me.
I'm not wrong.
They did as I explained.
(and as physics dictates).