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John Turney said:
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When you have a pickup,van,& a 12 pack,
& the wife says you can only have one vehicle.
 
The tire shop called and said the lugnuts on my 1977 RV were tight and could they use a torch because of the painted wheels. Told them I still had paint, get it done.
 
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regarding post 130, I was going to change rear shocks on my Nissan Frontier and my 1/2 impact wouldn't do it. So I tried the jack under the breaker bar trick. Breaker bar shaped into a banana and nuts still wouldn't loosen. I took it to a shop that had more air and a 3/4 impact. I've been twisting wrenches about 60 years and never been beat before.
Bob
 
Working on my 64 Plymouth Valiant, notice new studs and lugnuts on left rear. Somebody broke the original left hand threaded nuts and studs and then installed right hand threaded nuts and studs. Now I have three right hand stds and the left front is still original left hand. Don't think I an have a shop do my tires on car.
 
I do not know if this observation is really related to the different handed fasteners being on the wrong side, but my wife had a 54 Hudson that had been wrong sided and a high school friend had a car similarly wrong sided. Both tended to drop wheels from the lugs backing off.
Bob
 
I never let a shop near the left side of one of my cars that had left handed threads without my supervision.
 
waltesefalcon said:
I never let a shop near the left side of one of my cars that had left handed threads without my supervision.
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Two of my Alfa GT's had left threaded studs/lug-nuts. Always managed to do the removal myself. Still have a set of rotors with studs for one of those cars, NIB. Had the spares on-hand just in case it ever got into the wrong hands!
 
Start them early. :encouragement:
 
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