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alex_pescaru Member Since: 12 Mar 2009 Location: RO Posts: 4642 ![]() |
You must buy the whole wheel hub with bearings and all...
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atlas Member Since: 27 Jul 2012 Location: Timisoara Posts: 207 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
It seems that for some of the wheel nuts and studs thread is partially damaged. Some can be rotated easily by hand, but very little. What is strange is that after a few miles some nuts gets stuck in place, then the phenomenon is back. |
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alex_pescaru Member Since: 12 Mar 2009 Location: RO Posts: 4642 ![]() |
Ahaaaa.... Wait a minute...
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atlas Member Since: 27 Jul 2012 Location: Timisoara Posts: 207 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Thanks Alex ! Good news, you saved me 500 euro |
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alex_pescaru Member Since: 12 Mar 2009 Location: RO Posts: 4642 ![]() |
Just about 3...
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atlas Member Since: 27 Jul 2012 Location: Timisoara Posts: 207 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Thanks! |
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dave_evans Member Since: 03 Nov 2012 Location: England Posts: 11 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
On the subject of wheel nuts, what possessed Land Rover - with all their off-roading heritage - to use nuts that are 'blind'? Imagine: it's late at night and you're changing a wheel on the side of a road out in the sticks...and you drop one of the nuts into the grit in the curb. Now, if you're not aware of the potential for disaster, you'll screw this nut on, tighten it up and drive off....not realising that all you've done is tightened the stud's end against the muddy grit in the end of the nut - there's a reasonable chance it's not even touching the wheel!
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Andy131 Member Since: 09 Dec 2009 Location: Manchester Posts: 2187 ![]() ![]() |
Got to agree that blind nuts are pretty but a liability.
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dave_evans Member Since: 03 Nov 2012 Location: England Posts: 11 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
I must have been spoiled as a youth: every car I've had that used wheel bolts had a raised ring around the centre of the hub. Usually extending out by about 3/8" of an inch, this provided a 'landing' for the wheel and all that was required was a toe to press against the lowest part of the tyre to keep it all in place until the first bolt was finger-tight. Dead easy and, if anything, less likely to damage an alloy rim than dragging it over steel studs! |
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Andy131 Member Since: 09 Dec 2009 Location: Manchester Posts: 2187 ![]() ![]() |
That'll be the 20+ years I spent fixing forklifts, lifting solid wheels - non of this filled with air rubbish.
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pab Member Since: 28 Aug 2012 Location: Now in Mid-Wales Posts: 2007 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Yes. But the usual rules apply - so long as you've got it you won't need it, but as soon as you take it out... I carry a shovel in winter, but not the rest of the year. I'm treating myself to a new folding type for this winter. |
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