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Damn, that sucks. Glad you guys were alright. Are you sure you havnt pissed someone off lately? Sounds pretty malicious for a prank....seems like someone would really want to inflict harm, death or damage to you and your vehicle to do something like that. Hopefuly it doesnt happen again, POS...whoever it was....
If you have aluminum rims they don't need a teenager around for them to loosen up. In fact there are a lot of things to keep constant vigil of like axle ubolt nuts, exhaust manifold studs and nuts, pinion nuts, axle drain plugs (pesky rocks), I could go on and on. The vibrations we put our rigs through offroad are enough to loosen just about any nut.
This why I always use steel wheels. You get better thread engagement. Lug holes in aluminum tend to wear faster, with just normal tire removal than steel, and they wallow when lugnuts aren't tight. And I always make the tire store guys run the lugnuts down by hand and then have them lower the tire until there's pressure on it, not all the weight, but just enough to keep the tire from spinning, and torque them! IF you put all the weight on the tire, the wheel might not torque properly, the weight prevents the wheel from centering up 100% And retorque them again after 100 miles!
they can also have someone jump in the cab and hold the brake to torque
well i have the stock, rusty, white steelies on my truck. so i doubt anyone would like to steel my wheels.
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