Lugnuts, that is.
To get access to the crank on a ’94 SL2 Saturn with aluminum wheels, I had to pull the RF wheel. Doing that, I saw this:
All four on that wheel are pretty much the same. AFAIK, these are the original wheels and nuts.
Thoughts?
Lugnuts, that is.
To get access to the crank on a ’94 SL2 Saturn with aluminum wheels, I had to pull the RF wheel. Doing that, I saw this:
All four on that wheel are pretty much the same. AFAIK, these are the original wheels and nuts.
Thoughts?
Ham-fisted gorillas at the world's cheapest tire store torqueing down with an impact gun at full bore for 30 seconds every other year when it needed new world's cheapest tires.
Javelin wrote: Ham-fisted gorillas at the world's cheapest tire store torquing down with an impact gun at full bore for 30 seconds every other year when it needed new world's cheapest tires.
couldnt have said it better myself...maybe coulda tossed in an asshat or 2, but pretty much spot on
Al-u-miny-um migration.... wouldn't like that on my nuts!
Better there than on your hootus.
In reply to slantvaliant:
I would gladly piss myself than risk "Herculiner on my Hootus" !!
Your nuts are nuts. That help?
Clean things up with a brush or file, schmutz on some Never-Sieze and buy a torque wrench.
Zat help?
Dan
I think it looks like those nuts were used on a steel wheel with a different cut on the taper. The nuts were gouged, then they chewed up the aluminum wheels when they were put back on. An alloy wheel isn't going to damage a steel nut.
Streetwiseguy wrote: I think it looks like those nuts were used on a steel wheel with a different cut on the taper. The nuts were gouged, then they chewed up the aluminum wheels when they were put back on. An alloy wheel isn't going to damage a steel nut.
I tend to agree with this statement. Looks like the taper is off.
They look similar to mine, only mine don't have any aluminum hunks in them.
Our Saturn has steel wheels, and that indent in the lugnut is exactly like ours.
I guess it may be a saturn thing. My ex's saturn always had lug nuts and wheels that looked like that too but it was a Vue (2007 IIRC). I think it was a combination of her and her fathers cheap tire buying and the fact that I was always having to flip her over to the spare cause she was a drunk and always hit stuff. Wheel and tire replacements happened every two months and I didn't always have time to be the one to do it.
I'd say yer nuts are fuxxored.
Yeah, that's what I figured.
Now I have to look at the rest of the lugnuts and wheels.
And get back to what I was working on in the first place - repairing the power steering pump mounting.
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