afgman786
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Yes wheel and spacer came off together.Over (or under) thinking it... it is unlikely that one incident lead to this failure. It more likely due to improper installation, such as over or under torqueing nuts, or installing wrong nuts (based on your hub centric comment above), or lack of periodic maintenance, such as checking and re-torqueing nuts.
I have a couple questions to get this whole story straight:
The wheel in question had a spacer; so the wheel and spacer came off together, not just the wheel, correct?
You torqued the aluminum spacer to axle nuts to 100 ft-lbs, correct?
Two studs snapped and 4 are "OK"?
If that last answer is yes, then all arrows point to improper install and/or lack of maintenence.
Correct lug nut choice is critical.
Wheel spacers require locktite on the studs when attaching them to the axle, they should be torqued to, usually, 80 to 90 ft lbs (the sets I've used all stated 85 ft-lbs). They need to be rechecked periodically.
The spacers and nuts were the ones I bought off you, and yes to being torqued to 100lbs. I did not use loctite, put them on before Fall Crawl and hadn't checked them since. Also only drove at Fall Crawl and then Cove recently before taking it down to Atlanta. The ones on my 200 are hub-centric, and the spacers on the 40 have the lip so the wheel sits hub-centric on the spacer and I assumed the spacer sat hub-centric as well.
That's what he explained to me, that the 4 remaining studs were fine..