my night (long read)

[chainsaw]

yesterday, we brought the camaro home from chris' house.

so last night, i decide before heading to matt's today, i wanted to change the wheels and tires from the z28 over to the truck. my cousin and i start swapping the wheels. i was going to go get something to eat, get the bolts at lowes, then drop my cousin off at my grandparents...


we get out on the road, about halfway to my grandparents house, and i feel a humming noise coming from the rear of the truck. i pull over, check all 4 wheels. i get to the left rear, only to discover that there is only 1 lugnut holding the rim on.

note, this is before we stopped at the store, or got food, etc.

then i thought that i forgot my cell phone in the camaro, so i walked to the nearest house to make a phone call. i knock on the front door, only to scare the hell out of the elderly lady inside. so what does she do when there's an unknown person knocking at the front door? she calls the police. 20 minutes later, a police cruiser pulls up to the house.

the officer asks what's going on. i explained about the truck, he told me to walk back to the truck while he explained to the lady why i was knocking at the door. he came back about 5 minutes later, then offered to take us to the police station where we could call to let someone know what was happening. then he drove us to my grandparents, where we dropped my cousin off, and i called mom to let her know what was going on. borrowed a 4 way and flashlight, then the officer dropped me off at my truck, where mom was waiting. he wished me luck, then headed off to patrol again.

so then i got the lugs tightened, and good enough to get me home.

that's bout all i care to remember from last night. :finger:

so guess who is stopping at autozone for lugnuts? :thumbup:

[My1stCamaro92RS]

Giving old ladies heart attacks are ya? ;) A night you'll remember for a long time, as well as her. Luckily you checked out the noise or you'd be chasing a wheel too...and doing repairs also.

We had a girl at work lose her wheel at the intersection and watch in horror as it rode past her door and go through the intersection during morning rush and somehow not hit a car. Then into the adjoining company's parking lot and again not hit anything and disappeared behind their building. I got the call to check it out. She was upset but I had to chuckle. Turns out her cheap-ass husband had mounted all the wheels with only 3-4 lugs as he lost all the lugs for one wheel and thought that 3-4 would be good enough. This girl drove each day from Painesville to Beachwood using 90/271. Imagine losing the wheel at those highway speeds.

[ThirdgenTa]

My friend bought his old 93 s-10 pickup off some race car driver. It came with some pretty nice looking rims and the stock ones. THe guy said to just use the stock lug nuts on the aftermarket rims. Well one day we decide to put the rims on and drive the car around the neighborhood. We here the wheel rubbing on the wheel well so we are driving up his driveway at like 10mph and the tire falls off and we go sliding. Needless to say the tire went rolling down the driveway and the truck was sitting on the fender. All of the lug nuts were shaved off because they were to small.

[TwoBears]

Glad y'all didn't get hurt! Wow, only one lug nut left. Reminds me of my old girlfriends 4x4 S-10 Blazer we took camping about eight years ago. Before we left she had the oil changed at the Walmart at Brookpark and Tiedeman. No big deal, I just hadn't had the time to do it for her. We left Cleveland and it felt like one of the tires was out of balance. I figured no worries so we kept on driving. After we passed thru Canton on I-77 it began to get worse and the truck started shaking close to Dover. We stopped at the rest area there and I checked the tires to see if perhaps one had a slipped belt. Nope, but all five nuts on the left front were loose enough for me to turn with my fingers. After I tightened 'em back up it rode even better than my IROC, but not much. :chuckle:

Regarding that Walmart, just got a pair of new tires for my wagon and the idiots put the white walls on the inside even though the other pair had the whites out. And yes, I did check to see if they tightened the lug nuts.

[chainsaw]

yeah, it wasn't a very cool feeling.

i never filled in on what happened afterwards.... so the next day before i left for matt's with my hoist to help pull his engine, i checked all the lugs to make sure they were tight. i did this every time i stopped somewhere.

ben (friend of mie and chris') and i were at summit one night and i found lugnuts that had the same thread and shank as the exsting ones on my truck. they just had a different head on them. snagged them on the clearance rack for $5.

i've yet to have to re tighten them, so i think i remembered to tighten them good enough :thumbup: