Ken McNairn wrote:
> Chrysler used left hand threads on one side of the vehicle and right hand
> threads on the other side. The mind grows dimmer, though, and I can't remember
> which side was which.
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> "G.R. Patterson III" wrote:
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>>Larry wrote:
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>>>Here's a thought. Any possibility it's a left-hand thread? If it is a
>>>homemade trailer, and the builder happened to use a wheel/axle from, for
>>>example, a 50's Chrysler product, you may be tightening it further when
>>>you think you're loosening it.
>>
>>Didn't the old Chrysler products have an "L" stamped on the end of the lugs?
>>
>>George Patterson
>> If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
>> been looking for it.
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I *think* it was right-hand thread on the right side, and left-hand
thread on left side. The theory, as I recall, was that if a lug nut came
loose, the forward motion of the vehicle would be more likely to keep
the nut from working its way off the stud.

Larry