Dude!!! Your rear wheel fell off!!!

[pillen140]

Been there, done that... front and rear tires, both on green fords...

me too. once i used an impact gun that the junkyard let me use to put used wheels i bought there on an old mazda i had. didnt know the damn thing only had about 10ftlbs of torque! another time on the ranger, i was working on it over the weekend, put the rear tire back on just to get it off the jackstands til the next day.... whoops! forgot about it! it was fun trying to find my wheel in a creek bed in the absolute darkness with no street lights and just a cell phone for a light.

 

[dankhimself]

My new wheels need the lug nut to center the wheel on the hub a lot more than the stockers, if i just put the rim on i can move the rim up and down on the studs about a quarter inch. I called Ultra and they said thats how they are made, and its why i needed their special lug nuts. Im still sceptical because it doesnt make sense that the holes are that big, but they havent come off or loosened up at all. But i always check my lugs with my half in breaker bar jsut incase my gun didnt do it right. the rims look awesome though! I just dont hope they fall off hahaha.

 

[doorgunner]

Just stay away from mine then...



Better than the whole trailer passing you...

waaaaaaaaaaaaahahahhahahahahaaaaaa.........WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My cousin had to lock up the brakes on his nasty old Ford truck cause some winehead pulled out in front of him. My cousin stopped in time .....

but he noticed his trailer as ir passed over the top of his truck......

with his aluminum fishing boat & motor still strapped to it......

 

[Metallheadd]

I had a Ford 9" axle break on a 79 Bronco. It snapped at the wheel bearing behind the wheel flange. I lost the wheel and brake drum running about 60mph on a country road. Skidded for a good distance on the brake backing plate, wheel and tire hit the guardrail luckily or it would have gone down in to the river. I tried to pull it off the road in 4lo and all it would do is spin the front tire. Had it pulled off the road with an F-250. I rebuilt that thing along the road to get it home the next day. Fun stuff....

 

[RatDog8o8]

I lost the "snout" on the hub of my '79 F-150 once, from the outer bearing out. Locking hub and all, just gone....somewhere between Grand Prairie and Austin on I-35.

Same road also claimed several parts on my 302-powered '74 Datsun pickup - bearing races wallowed out of the front passenger hub; seized the driver's rear axle bearing; and destroyed a spindle nut. Not all at the same time, but still.......

 

[The Mud Addict]

Was doing 50mph on an 2 lane road, had my left front tire come off. It almost took a car head on, and shaved about a 1.5in off my rotor. Removed a lug from each of the other 3 tires and installed spare hub and tire, was a long trip home.

 

[Funnyman141]

When I was driving my Oldsmobile my left rear tire decided to pass me, then fly down a ditch into the woods, that POS olds drove pretty well for a 3 wheeler lol. and the sheriff though it was pretty funny when he stopped to see why my "new" car was missing a tire.

 

[Fargo Wolf]

Nah, what's scary is having a wheel come off your own trailer and pass you......

That actually happened to a relative of my Dad's many years ago, except it was off the left rear of the truck, since he wasn't towing a trailer.

I got called to a wreck a few years ago. The front right came off a Peterbilt. The driver did just fine till he came around a slight right hand curve. At that point the truck leaned and headed for the ditch. The driver missed the abandoned house (which a lot of people thought was occupied), but lost the argument with a birch tree. Good thing it was PVC pipe on the trailers.