At the risk of having the PO panic, I am posting this ...
I was installing 1 1/4" spacers on the rear of my BJ74 today to match the spacers that are on the front of the truck. Install was going smoothly ... I was on the first spacer and had the tire back on with the lug nuts finger tight. I started torquing the nuts to spec and on the second nut, as there started to be some resistance (maybe at 30-40 lb-ft), the resistance suddnely went to nothing ... WTF?
Then the head of the nut came off
These are Toyota mag style lug nuts and AFAIK, they are original. I have never seen a lug nut separate like this, but I can tell you that I am replacing all of them ... see the pics.
Soooo ... the moral of the story is this: on our 20+ year old trucks, check your nuts
PS ... Charles .. no need to apologize for this please ....
I was installing 1 1/4" spacers on the rear of my BJ74 today to match the spacers that are on the front of the truck. Install was going smoothly ... I was on the first spacer and had the tire back on with the lug nuts finger tight. I started torquing the nuts to spec and on the second nut, as there started to be some resistance (maybe at 30-40 lb-ft), the resistance suddnely went to nothing ... WTF?
Then the head of the nut came off
These are Toyota mag style lug nuts and AFAIK, they are original. I have never seen a lug nut separate like this, but I can tell you that I am replacing all of them ... see the pics.
Soooo ... the moral of the story is this: on our 20+ year old trucks, check your nuts
PS ... Charles .. no need to apologize for this please ....