Make fun of my stupidity and/or ignorance regarding left hand lugs

I will do the same from now on. However, before reading that thread, there wasn't much of a chance I would have thought to go back hard right.

 

You think you are getting a late start, my car has been untouched for 35 years

 

Yeah Lefty Loosey Righty Tighty does not apply to Mopars until the sixties, Hupps, Willys and even them furrin' cars - my 1969 Alfa had LH threads on the left too....

 

Yup, did the same thing on my old '70 Plymouth Duster but only because I couldn't find a left handed wrench.

 

Well, then you got the guy who puts a right side drum on the left side. So my Willys jeep has left hand on the drivers side front and right hand on the drivers side rear.

 

Did the same thing on my Buddy's 67 Plymouth Belvedere in high school. We broke 2 studs before we figured out what was going on. Doh!!!

 

My '55 Dodge has them. And with the '56 Plymouth rearend that's in it, which uses studs, now each wheel on my car has different lugs.

 

My left hand story was a 1969 CHEVROLET Biscayne. Bought it for the wife to drive years ago. Went to put a set of rallye wheels on it. Did the left rear fine, went to do left front and coldnt break any loose. Got to the point I heated one with a torch. That was when I learned to turn to the right before getting torch out. Why it was that way I will never know.

 

Weren't those studs fun!!
25 below, on ice, in the dark, no flashlight and using a bumper jack too!
Nosed the front end up to a power pole to keep it from sliding ahead.
Not sure your T and C has them but maybe you'll run into screw in ball joints too!!

 

HA! That is a funny story.

When I was 14 some 35 years ago, I bought a nice shiny set of mag wheels for my 1955 f100. When I got home, I was in a hurry to get them on the truck and kept fumbling with the new chrome lug nuts to get them started on the studs. Only about every other one would thread on. Well, you know where this is going...

The parts guys sold me a set of those crazy "R/L" lug nuts for my "R" only vehicle.

Eventually, I had 2 wheels mounted on the truck, 2 still laying on the floor and 10 lug nuts that wouldn't fit nothin'!

 

My first car was a '55 Plymouth - had a flat - buddy with me at the time asked me if the car had left-handed threads on that side (I had no clue). Since he asked, I tried turning them left - came right off! Fast forward 6 months, bought a '55 Chevy with bald tires. Started pulling them off to get new ones - all went fine until I got to the left side and tried to turn them left! Struggled for a while then thought about it... Ooops!

 

My 1946 Ford 3/4 ton had lh thread studs on it. Took me a few days to realize what was going on.

 

I'm a Mopar guy, so am familiar with the LH studs on the driver side. Got thrown a "curve" last summer when putting rollers on my 37 IHC. It too has LH studs on the driver side. HOWEVER, somewhere along the way, the front drums and hubs got switched side to side. Lucky, I figgered it out before breaking anything.

 

One of the first things I did to my 59 Plymouth Suburban was lose the lug bolts and put right hand studs in all the way around.

 

Yep, I think that I started this ****. I was just tryin to get INDESTRUCTABLEFORCE on the right track regarding 62-65 b bodies. I do not claim to be an expert as some of the other *****s here do but I raced these cars when they were nearly new. My advice to him is to never buy a rustbucket Mopar to install a heavy hitter drive train as the body will just crumble. When you have a new guy who does not specify the components of a car ya gotta start at the basic level to give advice. What more basic info is how to change a wheel? Finish school get a job then buy a real one.

 

Chrysler had a team of mad scientists locked in a room in Detroit who's job was to invent stupid ways to do stuff like this.

 

LoL yep My 56 Cadillac and my 62 IHC .Well shoot so is my 41 Plymouth and I think my 49 Windsor too. I sure feel better seeing I'm not alone in finding out the hard way on some things like this.

 

1976 first car 1936 plymouth L&R threads 6V pos. grnd. sure was a spark show hooking up a 12v battery backwards not having a clue and having a flat for the first time and me 6'6" 300lbs can't break the lugs loose and this cigar smoking 140lb old timer walks over and had lugs broke loose instantly laughing his *** off! glad he caught me before i snapped the bolts off. he also showed me that some cars were L&R hand threads and to check the studs for letter.

 

I guess I was 16 or 17 when the cute girl up the street asked me to help her put her snow tires on her car as it was getting down into the late Fall. Thinking what a great opportunity to impress her and score some points, I jumped at the chance. I'm sure you know where this is going. She was driving some sort of early 60's Plymouth (an ugly, non-descript looking ex-taxi). Everything went fine with the right side, but obviously I struggled mightily with the left. I had changed the snow tires out on my family's Fords before and couldn't for the life of me figure why it was so hard to free up these damn lug nuts. After watching me struggle and sweat for about 45 minutes, her Father (who had to know the deal) walked over and said, "Try the other way". Never got anywhere with that girl and always kinda held a little grudge for her Dad, but I guess he taught me a valuable lesson....................We've ALL done something foolish at one time or another.

 

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