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From: aegroup@tekigm.UUCP (Dennis Ward)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.auto.tech
Subject: Re:  Sad Story About Torquing Wheel Bolts
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Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 11:07:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 20 11:07:22 1985
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> In article <4660@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
> >In article <1484@vax3.fluke.UUCP> gnosis@fluke.UUCP (Chris Villani) writes:
> >>                ....etc......
> >
> >Do I also have to explain that to tighten the nuts you turn clockwise
> >and to loosen them you turn counter-clockwise? Cripes! 
> 
>                      .....et.al.....
>               ..... Oh, by the way Mr. Ngai I appreciate the
> lesson in rotational mechanics;  I've been having trouble getting the
> lid off my peanutbutter jar.
> 
> Chris Villani

 I should hate to have either of you work on our cars.  We have one car (a 1981
 Renault 18i) that has no nuts, just four bolts per wheel that, yes, tighten
 clockwise and loosen ccw; another car (a 1984 Renault Encore) that has four
 nuts per wheel which tighten cw and loosen ccw; however, our third car (a 1966
 Dodge Coronet) has five nuts per wheel that:  tighten cw and loosen ccw -- on
 the right side or passenger side, and tighten ccw and loosen cw -- on the left
 or driver side.  I do not know how many other makes of cars do this, but most
 Chrysler products (thru at least the 70's) had left hand threaded studs and
 nuts on the left hand of the car (driver side) and right hand threaded studs
 and nuts on the right hand of the car (passenger side).  

 I have heard that Chrysler was not the only car maker to do this -- does
 anyone out there know who else did (does) this?  From experience, I usually
 have to tell anyone working on the Dodge about this, as I have had several
 "mechanics" immediately try to remove the left hand nuts ccw and wonder why it
 does not work.  Luckily, so far, no one has stripped any of the studs.

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 Renault:  Volkswagen with a French accent and sex.  (Compare engine
 compartments -- German efficiency vs French romanticism at its best.)

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