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Admit to your stupidity part soixante neuf
When you have invested several hours and countless rags into rebuilding your cv joints and axles and you hear a knocking sound coming from the back on the first test-drive don't go to bed feeling depressed. Just tighten those f*%king lug nuts.
Nothing to see, move on please. Michel
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05-03-2009, 10:05 AM
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Yea, it is a good thing to have tight lug nuts.
I lay a cheap torque wrench on the drivers seat anytime I remove the lugs. It just acts as a reminder to torque the lugs. I use a good torque wrench to actually torque the nuts. An old gray haired man taught me that trick. Now I have turned into a old gray haired man.
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05-03-2009, 10:32 AM
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Oh yeah done the loose lug nuts one. 400 yards felt one of the rears wabble and remembered straight away.
Pulled over and thumped my head saying idiot 
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'88 924S, first porsche. Washed and detailed, even removed the wheels to thoroughly clean them. That evening, wife and me, first outing together in that car, on the way to dinner. Felt a wobble, got that sick feeling, pulled into a gas station and asked to use their tools. My wife asking "What happened"? Yep all 4 wheels loose.
Now, if lug nuts are off, they are in the torque wrench drawer. |
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Told this BB in my thread that my engine had no intake manifold gaskets when they were right there, under the shop rags placed over the cylinders! DOH!
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 ) Spent two years ago a bank holiday weekend on trying to fish out the nyloc that holds the dizzy. I was sure I dropped it in the dizzy whole....Then on sunday night (planning to split the case rip out the chains ) I found a nyloc in my workpants...hmm.....The things we do...
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