The cruiser crossed 240k miles this week. In the past 3 weeks I’ve driven from dallas to my lease in Hamilton, TX, a duck hunting spot I have in Paris, TX, and drove to Tulsa for a wedding this past weekend.
Truck did great but in Tulsa I noticed some weird grinding with the suspension cycling. The truck made it home but on my commute today I noticed a very odd rumbling/popping that came with speed on my drivers side. I had myself convinced it was a bad CV (ask
@DirtDawg i probably sent him 75 texts worrying about it). So I got home tonight, jack the truck up, get my wheel lock key out, put it on the lug, and I noticed it was literally backed out so far the “acorn” of the lug was beyond the outside edge of the wheel. Sure enough 3 of my other lugs were finger tight and the last was backed out like the wheel lock. I think I forgot to do a final torque on my lugs on the drivers side when I replaced that shock only. Scary....but so glad I looked.
I popped off my dust cap while it was on the jack and my snap ring was good, CV looked great (torn bolts but I knew that), and nothing appeared to be out of place. Drove it around and feels great. My wife was not happy about this little mistake, and she’s not wrong this small mistake could’ve cost us a lot more than money. Keep your head on a swivel, check and double check everything!!!
Here’s pics of the cruiser doing “around town” duty, including sitting in the valet line at the casino in Tulsa
