Elmo65
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Anyone still use them? I bet you people have a few interesting stories. I’ve had tire shops twist mlne off a few times. And the L is stamped clearly on the stud.
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Left handed lug nuts?
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Yeah. Still have ten on the driver side on Vixen. I do all my own work, so I haven't been stupid enough to ring one off. Yet.
Same here. Sound Engineering. No one touches my cars. I use anti-seize and a beam torque wrench. Never a problem in 54 years.
Elmo65
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Does anyone still use them? I’ll bet y’all have a few stories. I’ve had mine twisted off a few times. The “L” is stemped plainly on the stud. Can’t people pay attention?
I write notes if I can't be there...
MoparLeo
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OK, be real how many people who have never owned a pre 1970 Mopar even know that now.
Only been discontinued for 55 years now. Who looks at wheel stud stamps.
Paint the left side nuts and studs yellow or red to get attention.
But always best to tell the people working on it. or leave a note.
Unless this is a collectable of some type, do what the factory did.
Change the left side over to r/h threads.
Problems solved.
Only been discontinued for 55 years now. Who looks at wheel stud stamps.
Paint the left side nuts and studs yellow or red to get attention.
But always best to tell the people working on it. or leave a note.
Unless this is a collectable of some type, do what the factory did.
Change the left side over to r/h threads.
Problems solved.
A56
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As long as they aren't chrome lug nuts on mag wheels.
Elmo65
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I’m 65. I remember the things that don’t matter.
Elmo65
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Point noted.
Can't read that L with an acorn nut on top! ... even though OE's had it on a nut side as well...
I was down to one wheel with the L lugs, the driver front. When I get-
together that part of the rebuild I don't yet know what i will do. Probably depends on availability of studs and chrome lugs for my factory exposed lug hub caps.
together that part of the rebuild I don't yet know what i will do. Probably depends on availability of studs and chrome lugs for my factory exposed lug hub caps.
Beam torque wrenches, vernier calipers, rpn style calculators, ain't nobody even wants to use my tools.
Hey man, can I borrow your calipers?
Sure, here.
How do I use this?
Dude, you can't read vernier style calipers? I guess you should go be a fag somewhere else and borrow someone else's tools then.
Yes, that's how I talk in the shop.
Why do you think Mopar finally went to all RH threads? Because there was no evidence of the lug nuts loosening with the RH thread on the left side. Convert to RH threads and no more problems.
3 1970 Darts, all right hand studs and nuts. Unless you never let anybody else work on your car, it just isn't worth it. First issue was in 1976, just 6 years past new. Car was in for new tires. The tire store put so much pressure on the lug nuts they warped my front drum and hub assembly on that side.
Back when I still had left hand lugs, I told the guy taking off the wheel after I had a blow-out on the freeway, left hand lug nuts. Before he started. He still buggered two of them up and came and got me and said the lug nuts are stuck. I pointed to the L, and said they are left hand lug threaded lug nuts. He was still confused so I took the impact from him and showed him on one that he hadn't buggered. It was like I was speaking a foreign language to him.
They couldn't find any studs and put right hand on them. Went to carquest the next day and got the right studs and some new lug nuts.
Haven't been to a Big O since.
Advance bought up all the carquests in town and they got rid of all the old parts and bolts bins, and has since went bankrupt in the vegas area. Tried to get something there once after the takeover and the old guy at the counter just shook his head and said, we quit stocking that after advanced took over and they got rid of what we had. . O_o
They couldn't find any studs and put right hand on them. Went to carquest the next day and got the right studs and some new lug nuts.
Haven't been to a Big O since.
Advance bought up all the carquests in town and they got rid of all the old parts and bolts bins, and has since went bankrupt in the vegas area. Tried to get something there once after the takeover and the old guy at the counter just shook his head and said, we quit stocking that after advanced took over and they got rid of what we had. . O_o
melcardona
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fact is...lf studs are not a comon sense thing...even if someone has delt with them in the past theres little to remind someone who does 500 lug nuts a wk...and none of them lf thred............another fact is .....not everything mopar did was a good idea....even though more great inovations came from them then any other maker...period
Because idiots kept breaking/stripping threads used to working on inferior cars.
Seen it happen, not a cheap or pretty thing to watch.
dr dodge
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the worst was 80-90's
you'd get a car and 3 were replaced, and the others still left.
have to get the wire brush out to see
as said above, I'd then paint them to remind myself
at this stage, all those studs are very old (R or L)
how many times can you re-tighten a fastener?
if it's a keeper/driver it's gonna get new studs and nuts.
I have lost wheels 2 times, not fun, not at all,
you look wtf is that? a wheel passing me? looks familiar, then the not fun starts
nor does it improve the car, (or worse) trailer, or it's ability to drive
and the old unilug/mag washer stuff were stud killers
so many nice cars destroyed when the g60 is stuck in the wheel well at 60 mph and not bolted down
and some pretty chrome nut were not even steel.
fun times
now lets talk about trailer balls..
dr
you'd get a car and 3 were replaced, and the others still left.
have to get the wire brush out to see
as said above, I'd then paint them to remind myself
at this stage, all those studs are very old (R or L)
how many times can you re-tighten a fastener?
if it's a keeper/driver it's gonna get new studs and nuts.
I have lost wheels 2 times, not fun, not at all,
you look wtf is that? a wheel passing me? looks familiar, then the not fun starts
nor does it improve the car, (or worse) trailer, or it's ability to drive
and the old unilug/mag washer stuff were stud killers
so many nice cars destroyed when the g60 is stuck in the wheel well at 60 mph and not bolted down
and some pretty chrome nut were not even steel.
fun times
now lets talk about trailer balls..
dr
33IMP
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There were MANY uses of left hand threads, by other brands too, on cars and trucks, NOT just Mopar.
Mopar just stuck with them longer than most.
But let's be honest, they haven't been common for fifty years or so, so why would I think a twenty or thirty something tire buster would be familiar?
My 62 has 3"studs, so obviously rht, but i have one car that still has left studs on the left side..... and three cars that have left hand thread BOLTS holding the wheels on.
Nobody but me touches the wheels on those cars.
Mopar just stuck with them longer than most.
But let's be honest, they haven't been common for fifty years or so, so why would I think a twenty or thirty something tire buster would be familiar?
My 62 has 3"studs, so obviously rht, but i have one car that still has left studs on the left side..... and three cars that have left hand thread BOLTS holding the wheels on.
Nobody but me touches the wheels on those cars.
33IMP
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True wire wheels with one big knockoff nut, DEFINITELY have left hand threads on the left...... and they NEED them!
33IMP
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The carquest here in tri-state AZ became a NAPA, overnight.
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