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wannabeeahack
PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:52 pm 
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skippy41 wrote:
Austina30 wrote:
When I was a R.A.C. Patrolman, I went out to a body builder who couldn't undo his wheel nuts on his LDV van, he was like a massive Samoan rugby player, and I weighed 12 stone , maybe half his size. Anyway while he made me a coffee I undid the left hand thread wheel nuts using a breaker bar whilst his wife laughed her head off at him when he returned. He did not look happy until we explained that he'd been tightening them .


If he didn't know they come off clockwise I suspect that there where many more that didn't, I don't think there are actually many vehicles that use the clockwise direction for the front nearside nuts


Being a commercial vehicle vastly increases the chance a vehicle has LH nuts one side and RH nuts the other, and the bigger the vehicle the more it becomes the norm

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Ah but do you know why?

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Baconsdozen wrote:
Ah but do you know why?

Obviously to make big muscular guys look stupid.

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Ah but do you know why?


Because commercials are built right, and it opposes the direction of loosening

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I remember buying a push bike a few years ago. I had to take it back because one of the pedals kept coming undone because the thread was the wrong hand.

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On braking hard the wheel nuts try and carry on rotating as the vehicle stops.Using opposite threads as on many commercials means they try and tighten,rather than loosen themselves,

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Baconsdozen wrote:
On braking hard the wheel nuts try and carry on rotating as the vehicle stops.Using opposite threads as on many commercials means they try and tighten,rather than loosen themselves,


Thats what I said...


BTW, when I sold RH/LH wheel nuts and wheel studs (short/long/spigot/metric) they were different prices, work that one out

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I've long given up working out how spare parts are priced. Half the time it seems to be more for what they're intended for than how much they cost to make.Same part number,identical part but different cars can mean totally different prices.

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Morris minor and MGB used the same steering rack , £90 more for the MG. it's called embezzlement
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whilst involved in HGV parts as a storesman, i saw an air suspension pivot arm bolt on our shelf, we paid £17.50 and sold them at £32.50, 10 minutes work and a call to our local bolt supplier.....£3.50.......but we didnt drop our retail price

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