Ok,
I finished the install of a 2.5" belton lift in my 60 late last night - drives great, looks great, quite happy with it.
Now, getting home from work, I took the truck out for another test drive [any excuse to drive it, really] + gave it a bath.
When I went to park it where it spent the day, one of the wheels fell off. No noise, no rattle, just went to make the turn and the front corner dropped.
Now, I know you're thinking "idiot didn't tighten his lug nuts." but the truth of the matter is the wheel was torqued to 90 ft.lbs - absolutely certain of this. I went around the truck and hand torqued each and every one before it rolled out of the garage. I might have driven it 20 kms since the install.
Here's where it gets interesting. I found all the lug nuts within 50 ft of the truck, so they all came off at roughly the same time. I found all 6. I've never had a loose lug nut, let alone all 6 come off at the same time.
Damage was very minor - I was almost stopped when the wheel decided to part ways [thank god]- the dust shroud is buggered and the rotor took a ding, but it spins freely and without noise. The threads on the wheel studs and the bolts are all fine, The bolt holes in the rim are a little ground out and the rim lost a small weight. I simply jacked it up and bolted the wheel back on, checked all the other nuts [all still at 90] and drove around a bit with my head out the window listening for noise coming from the rotor.
Frankly, I'm baffled.
The only thing I can think of is someone loosened the nuts. I can't think of anyone who would be so unbelievably stupid to do such a dangerous and terrible thing. My neighbour suggested it could have been someone trying to steal the wheels and got scared off, but it was parked on a busy street and the wheels are old, tired, non-descript rubber on rusty white steel rims.
I'm very thankful that this happened at low speed on a quiet street as opposed to a fast busy road, but I still cant figure it out for the life of me. Anyone have some thoughts on this?
I finished the install of a 2.5" belton lift in my 60 late last night - drives great, looks great, quite happy with it.
Now, getting home from work, I took the truck out for another test drive [any excuse to drive it, really] + gave it a bath.
When I went to park it where it spent the day, one of the wheels fell off. No noise, no rattle, just went to make the turn and the front corner dropped.
Now, I know you're thinking "idiot didn't tighten his lug nuts." but the truth of the matter is the wheel was torqued to 90 ft.lbs - absolutely certain of this. I went around the truck and hand torqued each and every one before it rolled out of the garage. I might have driven it 20 kms since the install.
Here's where it gets interesting. I found all the lug nuts within 50 ft of the truck, so they all came off at roughly the same time. I found all 6. I've never had a loose lug nut, let alone all 6 come off at the same time.
Damage was very minor - I was almost stopped when the wheel decided to part ways [thank god]- the dust shroud is buggered and the rotor took a ding, but it spins freely and without noise. The threads on the wheel studs and the bolts are all fine, The bolt holes in the rim are a little ground out and the rim lost a small weight. I simply jacked it up and bolted the wheel back on, checked all the other nuts [all still at 90] and drove around a bit with my head out the window listening for noise coming from the rotor.
Frankly, I'm baffled.
The only thing I can think of is someone loosened the nuts. I can't think of anyone who would be so unbelievably stupid to do such a dangerous and terrible thing. My neighbour suggested it could have been someone trying to steal the wheels and got scared off, but it was parked on a busy street and the wheels are old, tired, non-descript rubber on rusty white steel rims.
I'm very thankful that this happened at low speed on a quiet street as opposed to a fast busy road, but I still cant figure it out for the life of me. Anyone have some thoughts on this?