As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I would water that 98% of the people reading this, have no idea that there are left and right handed threaded bolts. Why, I do not care to explain, as this is about teaching you something about survival in what lays ahead, like positive ground in old Fords. Yes I said that, positive ground in old Fords which is what allot of you did not know either as you blow your head off with a battery after living through a nuke attack.
So I'm in prep mode. Am getting ready for the wheat harvest on Grandpas. Only thing I have is an old trailer I got from my old man, and the only reason I got it, is because that twister thought he was going to use it..........like my brother selling me back a fishing boat........his wheels were turning that I would pay the license and expense and he would sit his ass in it fishing. He died. They both died and I have the wagon and the boat.
So I pull the trailer over to Grandpas after pumping up the tires..............the reason the tire needed pumping up is the fucking old man, changed the rotten front tire, but not the leaking intertube. That bastard has been dead for decades and his fucking around cheating me is still coming home.
So I remember pulling that wheel off and being pissed about the tire, but I forgot something.
So the tire goes flat again and I have to fix that before grain gets in there, and as TL was cooking pork sausage, I went over on a hot as balls morning to pull the wheel off and get it ready to take it to town.
It only had 4 nuts on the lugs..........I have no idea why, but I started cranking on the first nut or my German burr. I stepped on it as what else do you do with a breaker bar, and it squeaks like hell on metal on metal. I try another one........same damned sound. I'm in a hurry, I'm thinking, "Why in the hell are the nuts so rusted on?" I'm thinking, "I have to be taking them off right????" I do the RIGHTY TIGHTY and LEFTY LOOSEY thing and I know I'm right...........so I start stepping on the bar again with all my weight and snap the nut breaks off.
What a surprise, but I figure better snapped off than rusted on and I can't get it off.
Next one snaps off...."Wow, what the hell is wit this cattle yard shit that has rusted these bolts on tight?"
The next one snaps off.........ten the last one snaps off.
I'm like, "This is just great. More damned work when I wanted this done easy".
So I get the plough hammer and start beating the hell out of the nubs an hit the one bolt that was whole. I get that one out and then I see on the end that L.
I know from the memory bank that the L means LEFT HANDED THREADS. I frown and realize I forgot decades ago taking those lug nuts off to the left as my lesson.
So I beat on the remaining ones and get the all to move about an 1/8th of an inch. Left the punch at home as who the hell thought about left handed threads breaking off. I tried a bolt.....no doing, so I loaded up and left for the journey to town to get replacement lugs which is not like it used to be. I think I got some that will fit, but tomorrow I'm going over with the punch, a vice grip to hold the hub and a vice grip to hold the punch, in case I miss while wailing on it, that I do not smack my hand.
Something is really angry over at Grandpas. Does not like me having food in preparation.
I did get two sheets of new roofing tin from JYG, which I will make a roof for this trailer as it is only 5 feet by ten feet long.
So that is your lesson. Even if only one lug has an L on it and you miss it, it does not change these damned left handed threads existing in this American world.
What are you going to do when you bust off those threads and there are not any replacements? Are you bright enough to get them off a salvage hub from a vehicle that does not work? Will you leave the nut on when you hammer to get them loose or just hammer on the lug and ruin the threads, and then you will be up jack and shit without a paddle.
All the fun of life in the hidden things you do not know in all your portfolio luxury of hiring the experience done. What happens when the hirelings want more than money and no one is alive to hire things done?
17 bucks this lesson taught me. 17 bucks in wasted money for 5 lugs, 5 nuts, 5 washers as I don't know if these new lugs have big enough heads to not pull through the holes.
Nuff Said
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