Lug nuts
Just finished a discussion with the better half, how many on here still remember right and left hand lug nuts?
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Absolutely
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Oh yeah, some older cars(?) Some American Motors and/or Rambler types (?) Some Chrysler products? But for sure any trucks one ton and larger had them (lefties) on the left side.
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I worked in a Western Auto store in the late 60s, mostly assembling bikes and changing tires and batteries. IIRC, only Chrysler products had "leftie/tightie" threads on one side of the car. The idea was that due to rotational friction, left-hand threads were self-tightening on that side.
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It is amazing the topics of discussion when you get into your 70's.😊
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We had a few F700 on the farm and I remember the Two piece lug nuts used for the rear duels they were also left hand thread on the left side. This is the inner nut
that went against the inner the L stamped on the end ment for left hand thread
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My Willys station wagon has left hand nuts on one side
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khornet: 31034301106715/comments/31034316844699
My Willys station wagon has left hand nuts on one side
Yep...My 49 Willys is the same way!!!
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Propane tanks too.
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'57 Pontiac had them. Bent the lug wrench figuring it out.
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my dads 63 Olds had them on the left side and the speedo cable ran to the left front wheel dust cap
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Mr. Perfect: 31034301106715/comments/31034291176475
Propane tanks too.
Ummm...Your propane tanks have lug nuts??? 😲
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Grunt2 was kinda wonder the same thing....🤣
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1950 Studebaker pickup has 'um. On the left side. I have one. (truck) The truck has ten. (nuts on the left side)😉
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Our Capital (Michigan), named their minor league baseball team the Lug Nuts.
I know as fact that they have both right and left handed nuts, and just a WAG, there are some nuts that go both ways (the ole switch hitter deal).
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I have a left one and a right one!
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savage170: 31034301106715/comments/31034335302555
We had a few F700 on the farm and I remember the Two piece lug nuts used for the rear duels they were also left hand thread on the left side. This is the inner nut
that went against the inner the L stamped on the end ment for left hand thread
Oh yeah, the old innie and outie Budd nuts. You ain't lived until you followed some farmer or gypo logger who mixed left and right studs on the same wheel!!!
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Thanks I couldn't remember what they called that type of lug I was drawing a complete blank. The correct name might have hit me 3 days from now
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Knock-offs on wire-wheeled sports cars were right and left sided.
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You guys must be old.Very few guys I deal with would know about lug nuts,much less right and left hand lug nuts.
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My only experience with them is on a water truck I used to drive back when I was 14. It was a big international box truck with a water tank in the back for my dad's spraying business.
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Last fall the boys were trying to remove a rim from an old trailer built on a 1960's era truck axle. They had a 5' cheater pipe and couldn't get the nuts loose so I took a look before they torched the unobtainium nuts off and/or ruined the lug bolts. I asked if they'd bothered to clean the crud off the end of the stud and see if it was a lefty-which of course they hadn't. Yupper, you can't remove a lug nut by turning it tighter.
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