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sperry · 2004-04-25, 10:19 PM

So, for those of you that were haning out at my place after the Auto-X on Saturday helping me work on my steering rack clunk... do any of you remember be torquing the lugs on my RF rim? Probably not, because the did not get torqued. :shock: That's right, I drove to and from Stead and Matt's house and ran 6 autoX runs that were easily in the 80 mph + range on a loose rim!

When I got back to my place tonight, I asked Kevin, "hey do you remember me torquing that wheel?" SO I grabbed a wrench and bingo, still nice and loose. All the torque the lugs had was from whatever my cordless drill puts on 'em when I zap 'em while the corner's still in the air.

I'm *extremely* lucky to have not lost a rim, especially considering the course we were running, where a RF rim comming off at the end of that straight could have meant rolling the car 9 times onto an active runway.

For everone that's heard the old "check your lugs before you race" and ignored it like me... DON'T IGNORE IT ANY LONGER. My pre-grid checklist just gain another item: "check torque on all wheel lugs".

2004-04-25, 10:19 PM	#1
sperry The Doink Real Name: Scott Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 20,335 Car: '09 OBXT, '02 WRX, '96 Miata Class: PDX/TT-6 The way out is through	O...M...G... Talk about dodging a bullet So, for those of you that were haning out at my place after the Auto-X on Saturday helping me work on my steering rack clunk... do any of you remember be torquing the lugs on my RF rim? Probably not, because the did not get torqued. :shock: That's right, I drove to and from Stead and Matt's house and ran 6 autoX runs that were easily in the 80 mph + range on a loose rim! When I got back to my place tonight, I asked Kevin, "hey do you remember me torquing that wheel?" SO I grabbed a wrench and bingo, still nice and loose. All the torque the lugs had was from whatever my cordless drill puts on 'em when I zap 'em while the corner's still in the air. I'm extremely lucky to have not lost a rim, especially considering the course we were running, where a RF rim comming off at the end of that straight could have meant rolling the car 9 times onto an active runway. For everone that's heard the old "check your lugs before you race" and ignored it like me... DON'T IGNORE IT ANY LONGER. My pre-grid checklist just gain another item: "check torque on all wheel lugs". __________________ Is you is, or is you ain't, my con-stit-u-ints?