Post by velcro on Dec 8, 2008 1:10:53 GMT -5
Use caution when mounting solid disc wheels on your MG. The shops use pneumatic power tools and the lug nuts get installed too tight. Ask the shop technician to hand tighten the lug nuts using a conventional socket wrench to approximately 45-55 ft/lbs.
I recently had to use a 3 foot 'cheater bar' to break loose the lug nuts on my son's MGB GT. Once I was able to loosen the lug nuts, with what seemed to be about 400 ft/lbs, (that's approx. my body weight at about 1.5 feet distance on the cheater bar). When I tried to re-install the lug nuts, they studs began to fall out of the drum. The nuts had been on so tight that it must have caused some deterioration of the knurled portion of the stud shaft and the corresponding hole in the drum.
There would have been no way to remove any wheel because of a flat whilst parked on the side of a road somewhere.
I recently had to use a 3 foot 'cheater bar' to break loose the lug nuts on my son's MGB GT. Once I was able to loosen the lug nuts, with what seemed to be about 400 ft/lbs, (that's approx. my body weight at about 1.5 feet distance on the cheater bar). When I tried to re-install the lug nuts, they studs began to fall out of the drum. The nuts had been on so tight that it must have caused some deterioration of the knurled portion of the stud shaft and the corresponding hole in the drum.
There would have been no way to remove any wheel because of a flat whilst parked on the side of a road somewhere.
