Fucking trams am pos god damnit

**ls1camino** · 10-04-2008, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by Smkn_TA

Seriously though, any ideas on what to do with it? I can't bring myself to throw it in the trash. The tire looks savable, one nasty gouge from the quarter panel but no leak.

Hang it on your garage wall as a momento...I have done it twice now:

1. Rear end cover from my Trans Am that has 4 "shotgun" holes in it from the ring gear shooting through it.

2. The front bumper from my Suburban. I tried pulling a stump out at camp (where I worked for 2 summers). Stump yanked my cast iron bumper right off the 4 frame supports (bolts sheared)...Stump - 1, Front Bumper - 0, Rear Bumper - 1

**Tonik** · 10-05-2008, 03:13 PM

(sorry if this has been mentioned already)
Typically a wheel falls off because the lugs were overtorqued to the point it shears the threads off the stud as opposed to the lugnuts not being tight enough. The proper torque for our wheels is 110lbs.

**67CamaroRSSS** · 10-05-2008, 03:31 PM

Originally Posted by Tonik

(sorry if this has been mentioned already)
Typically a wheel falls off because the lugs were overtorqued to the point it shears the threads off the stud as opposed to the lugnuts not being tight enough. The proper torque for our wheels is 110lbs.

Page 6-71 of my 2002 owners manual states wheel nut torque as 100 lb-ft.

**chuckie669** · 10-05-2008, 03:43 PM

I've never Torque'd a car lugs except to 100 ft lb's.

**Blackbuick1987** · 10-05-2008, 03:55 PM

Looks like some of the wheels holes were wallowed out a little bit like what happens when the lugs are not tightened and the wheel can just "flop" around. Could also be why the studs sheared too with the wheel flopping around like that coulda just hit them enough times to break them off.

**Mr. Luos** · 10-05-2008, 03:58 PM

Originally Posted by ls1camino

ARP makes some, and yes, you do have to pull the axles

No you don't.

Remove the ABS/wheel speed sensor, and the studs should slide in and out of that hole.

**NJ 666** · 10-05-2008, 07:24 PM

Originally Posted by Blackbuick1987

Looks like some of the wheels holes were wallowed out a little bit like what happens when the lugs are not tightened and the wheel can just "flop" around. Could also be why the studs sheared too with the wheel flopping around like that coulda just hit them enough times to break them off.

That's what I was thinking. Seen it before where not all the lugs were tightened(say like 2 were loose) Well the 3 tight lugs will finally give up and snap, the 2 loose ones will wallow out the holes in the wheel, and then give up. I don't think they were all overtorqued.

Look at the pics. 2 lug holes look fine and 3 are wallowed out.