coastlogger
Well-Known Member
I have a number of Budd equipped vehicles:a dumptruck and two equipment trailers. Always concerned about wheels coming loose so I like to check them periodically. Seems to me that to do this right one has to check inner nut as well as outer nut tightness. To do this one has to loosen off outer nut.Invariably it seems at least some of the outer nuts are stuck to the inner nut and require additional measures to get them loose.ie heat.Usually I do this all by hand but I recently upgraded my air 3/4 drive so thought I d give that a go. Didnt go so well. On 3 nuts they came slowly off and I thought all was fine and kept rattling but in fact the outer nut was seized on the inner(after rotating a few turns alone),and it was turning both. Impossible I would have thought because inner nut will come up tight against the inner wheel. Wrong.It pushed the stud backward out of the hub. On realizing something was amiss I removed both wheels and sure enough theres the stud just poking out of the hub/brakedrum .At first I thought they were snapped off and in figuring out that they werent,I inadvertently pushed them back whereupon they dropped into the brakedrum!So off comes the hub and drum. etc etc. See title.
Anyone have any good procedures for this?Im actually thinking of buying a bunch of outer nuts and kind of doublenutting the exposed threads of the inner nuts,sort of like having deep nuts on a pickup so the threads stay clean.
Anyone have any good procedures for this?Im actually thinking of buying a bunch of outer nuts and kind of doublenutting the exposed threads of the inner nuts,sort of like having deep nuts on a pickup so the threads stay clean.