That is cased by excess heat transfer from worn out muffler bearings. Some makers try to address it by using high-compression lug nuts, but that is just a band-aid fix. The underlying issues will bubble to the surface sooner or later.
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That is cased by excess heat transfer from worn out muffler bearings. Some makers try to address it by using high-compression lug nuts, but that is just a band-aid fix. The underlying issues will bubble to the surface sooner or later.
ACORN
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Many chrome lug nuts are steel nuts with a stainless shell over them. After a while weather gets under the shell rusting the steel and causing the shell to swell. Best to change them out while you can. Once they get too big you can’t get a socket to fit properly to take the off.
wheelgun28
Member
I always reply no thank you, they are tight enough...
That makes them give you a blank look like HUH...
wheelgun28
Member
I had Corvette with tri lug spinners that you needed to hammer tight.
Growing up we had a Jag XKE with the two lug spinner. These were marked(as I recall) "undo" with an arrow.
DeathGrip
US Veteran
General Motors had those damned fake chrome acorn lug nut covers. I have more descriptive words for them.
Was that the late '70s or early '80s? You couldn't help but ruin them. Even with a proper socket and torque wrench
Total garbage.
Yup my 78 Camaro still has them on. Cant wait tile I need tires.
DeathGrip
US Veteran
That's funny!!!! I had a '79. More amazing is yours still has them.
I hated that car back then. Thinking back it was kinda cool.
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I've only had to change 3 tires on the side of the road in my life.
I learned fast that the tools in the trunk or under the seat are pretty much useless.
Keep a 25" breaker bar, a piece of thick wall aluminum pipe that's about 2 foot long that will fit over the breaker bar. and a Snap On socket that fits my lug nuts. I didn't want to cheap out on the socket.
I learned fast that the tools in the trunk or under the seat are pretty much useless.
Keep a 25" breaker bar, a piece of thick wall aluminum pipe that's about 2 foot long that will fit over the breaker bar. and a Snap On socket that fits my lug nuts. I didn't want to cheap out on the socket.
DeathGrip
US Veteran
Amazingly I've never had to do a tire on the side of the road.
But I always have better equipment than the factory lug wrench. I carry a pretty good assortment of tools at all times too.
mckenney99
Member
In my 26 year career, I changed a ton of tires for motorists on the side of the road (that's one of the positive things we are known for). We carried the extra large 4 way lug wrenches just for that purpose. I bent a few (broke one) of those getting some lug nuts loose. Also had a few cars that wound up getting towed because I just could not get one or more lugs to loosen up.
I also came to the conclusion that the most neglected part on a vehicle is the spare tire. More often than not, when the spare was pulled from storage it would be just as flat as the one on the car. I started carrying one of the larger 12v air compressors just for those times. I patrolled a very desolate rural section of Interstate which might require 2+hr wait for a tow truck at certain times. That little compressor might have been slow but if the spare held the air, it got both of us back on the road quicker.
I also came to the conclusion that the most neglected part on a vehicle is the spare tire. More often than not, when the spare was pulled from storage it would be just as flat as the one on the car. I started carrying one of the larger 12v air compressors just for those times. I patrolled a very desolate rural section of Interstate which might require 2+hr wait for a tow truck at certain times. That little compressor might have been slow but if the spare held the air, it got both of us back on the road quicker.
Jon651
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I would have thought that the most challenging part of your day would have been driving around in a Yaris where others who know you would see... 
Just a few years ago I tore my rotator cuff and the muscles in my upper right arm trying to remove a lug nut on an Izusu Trooper. Finally had to get operated on that winter and the wife had to haul in the firewood. She said no more operations in the fall or winter. Got rid of the Trooper.
OP
Now there's my problem. It's that danged 90 pounds I've lost...
OP
Back when I lived and worked in the Washington DC area, I kept an emergency tool kit in the back of my car with a portable air compressor and I'd help people out. Setting out road flares, changing tires, jump starting, pumping up a tire or just using a fix-a-flat.
This was way back in the olden days before everybody had a cell phone.
OP
Then it's my wife's car that I'm driving for her.I would have thought that the most challenging part of your day would have been driving around in a Yaris where others who know you would see...
The full size Dodge Ram 4wd truck's my vehicle.....
Thats why I have a 3/4 inch breaker bar and a six foot piece of 1 1/2 inch black pipe. Works for that situation. Even help the neighbors on occasion.
DeathGrip
US Veteran
I have a set of heavy jumper cables in my truck. I've jumped about 30 or better people with them. most times I've found them with their pathetic cables trying to get a jump off of another car.
I like helping people.
I like helping people.
TheHobbyist
Member
Sorry to hear about that, but sounds like all is well now. It can be frustrating, taking two steps back and one forward.
I bent the stock tire iron just yesterday trying to get the lug nuts loose so I could get to the starter on my Dakota.
Bad part is, I'm the one who tightened them 3 months ago when I changed out the stabilizer links. I know I didn't put them back on that tight.
I gave up and took it to the shop today so they could do it for me.
Maybe I should get some anti-seize compound and put it on after they've finished.
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