RE: nuts

[Alan Lambert <lechefgerard@domain.elided>]

You're right--with left hand nuts on wheels turning clockwise (and vice
versa) the tendency is to tighten the nut rather than loosen
it--obviously, though, at some point manufacturers decided it wasn't
such a big deal.

--- Brian Shorey <bshorey@domain.elided> wrote:
> <snip>
> > pressure past redline, just change'em. No matter what
> > you hear or read, there never was any really good
> > reason to make them that way, and insisting that there
> > MUST have been or else Alfa Romeo (quick genuflection
> > towards Milano) wouldn't have done it is simple
> > mindless idolatry. Everybody's stupid once in a while
> <snip>
> 
> I thought that the purpose of the directional lug nuts was a tendency
> to
> resist loosening up.  Anybody?  Anybody?
> 
> bs
> 
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Alan Lambert
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