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NISSAN4WHEELER |
Driving home from Datz510's gravel spreading event this evening my left rear wheel came off as I was driving home through Mesa. I heard the strangest sound, then felt a sensation like a complete blowout, but the rear end sat down way farther than you'd expect from that. As I saw sparks flying from the left rear in the side mirror my fully inflated tire and wheel passed me on the left, cut across two lanes of traffic, bounced off a chain link fence and proceeded to cross back over the road into the driveway of a trailer park. I ground to a halt in the center left-turn lane. I have NEVER seen traffic in the Phoenix metro stop that quick for an emergency vehicle but thankfully everybody who could have gotten in the way of that wheel had stopped and nobody got hit or hurt.
I retrieved the wheel, scrounged some lugnuts from the toolbox, started getting the truck jacked up, got a hold of Desert Rat over at Datz510's and asked for some help since I was only a mile or three from there and he and Stone came out just in time to see me drive my truck off the road into the trailer park lot. Except my brake drum was still missing. DR and Stone helped me find the brake drum and get the wheel back off while I torqued all the other lugnuts on the truck down and DR drove home to get some wheel studs because mine were shot and we got it all put back together there at the trailer park driveway and I was able to make it back home from there. Thanks guys.  Stone asked me why I thought this happened after I had made my little karma donation spreading gravel today. (probably because I didn't tighten those lug nuts like I should have huh?) I don't think it was just because I was leaving the gravel work early but I have an idea what it was... TF&J I apologize for that crack I made over there in the 2nd tcase thread. It was clearly wrong of me to be talking smack about parts falling off in the road  |
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Moderator N4W Card Holder  Ultimate N4Wheeler  |
Dood, that sucks. Glad everything is okay. Any carnage to the body of the truck?
Do you have any idea as to how that happened? I guess loose lug nuts stressing out the wheel studs... -----------------------------   My myspace page. TUPPERWARE!!!! "Never argue with an idiot, they will just drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." |
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Off-Road Warrior |
Must be a swanky thing...
My upper control arm came off twice.. Spike, Thantoz and put it back on and it never came off again.. -- MattMan555 -- << 2000 Nissan X >> <<A lift and big tires >> << Now with Urine Protection >> |
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Administrator N4W Card Holder Arrr.. Me good eye! Ultimate N4Wheeler  |
You should get that bumper sticker for your X...
"Honk if parts fall off" Sorry to hear this happened man.. but thanks for all your help yesterday! The gravel that we got done turned out really nice. ------------------------------------------------------------  <--Click Me!"As a lion is to a cat, so is a mastiff compared to a dog." "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety." - Benjamin Franklin |
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Administrator N4W Card Holder Ultimate N4Wheeler  |
They were originally Sandbag's parts....
We knocked them out of that old H190 housing before it went to the dump. I still have 6 more   1998 Frontier 4x4, 2002 Xterra 4x4, and Z28 street rocket Pass here and go on. You're on the road to heaven - Kerouac |
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NISSAN4WHEELER |
Correct me if I am mistaken, but wern't you missing a lug nut or two when you were up here?
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Ultimate N4Wheeler |
 Like maybe, with a torque wrench?..................... "Climate change is no longer science. It's politics... Climate change is also about power. Power to control.... It's about who gets to decide: how much energy we will have... where that energy will come from... what it will cost... It's about simulations, scenarios and monsters conjured up by computer models that should never be used to chart government policy -- especially on matters that will profoundly affect our livelihoods, living standards, life spans and dreams of a better future. "So hold onto your wallets, and hope you can hold onto your homes, cars and jobs. You're about to be put on a wild political roller coaster." - Paul Driessen, TownHall.com ( the lies of global warming)> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zeGY8zbzc8 |
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Overlander |
I had that happen on a spray truck. Left front wheel passed me. Luckily, the 500 gallon water tank on the back was full, and helped keep the front off the ground. Some studs cracked and the other lugnuts came loose then. the brake drum never touched the ground.
 2004 Titan-fairly stock, '89 Nissan sas swap in progress d60/9", 9", 5.43's/arb's, 38.5x16x15"tsls/beadlocks, winch/air, 3.3L |
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NISSAN4WHEELER |
I've never had I tie fall off before. Every time I reinstall a tire I torque the lug nuts to 100 FTLB.
1995 KC XE-V6 4x4. |
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N4W Card Holder NISSAN4WHEELER  |
I have known shoulder-style lug nuts, in aluminum rims, to come loose. Give me tapers any day! I'll spare you the stories.
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