Re: lug nutz?

Posted by Loyd Smith On 2009/4/15 16:00:31

"To my memory only Chrysler Corp used LH threads on one side, so the rotation momentum would tend to tighten, not loosen them."

-Flat tire four blocks north of the International Bridge, Laredo, Texas, after having caught the 2:30 AM show at the New Shamrock Club across the river in Nuevo Laredo with a bunch of air traffic controllers from Laredo AFB. 1967 Dodge Polara station wagon. LH threads. 250 lb individual trying to turn wrong way with jack-handle lug wrench. Wrench actually bent, slipping off lug nut, throwing wrench-turner into gutter, cutting three inch gash in forehead - just as Laredo's Finest arrived on scene. One of those moments indellibly etched into my memory in stone.