Don't Forget to Torque

[holeski]

So have any of you heard about the poor fool who lost a tire going down the Rich at 55 MPH? I know Nate did. I wasn’t going to tell anyone one but it’s funny and what are we if we can’t laugh at our own faults. I swapped out the 30" Mud Rovers onto the MJ and was going to get steel for AKCJ8’s bumpers. The rear end felt loose, but I thought it might just have been the new tires. Right before the flood plains the rear drivers tire goes thump. I think to my self " that’s not a flat" and start to slow down and pull off when it goes thump and my tire passes me on the highway, a another car just missing it. I get out and pick it up and throw it in the back of the truck and start walking back to see if Kevin could help me move it when I say screw that I can fix it. Well I had just put the lug wrench in the truck when I left since it didn’t have one. I jack the rear of the MJ up and steal a lug nut off of each of the 3 other wheels and torque them all down. Now with 3 of the 5 lug nuts on I head to NAPA to get a few more. And that’s that. I called Nate and told him the story last night and he says he had on of his troops told him about this truck and the tire coming off. Now that’s some funny Chit man.