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I can't see what kind of wheel you have but you must have the wrong lug nuts or they were really loose. be sure you don't have metric studs and standard nuts or vice versa. the stud must have broken, if it pulled out you have sore incorrect parts.
How many miles since you installed the wheels? Did you go back and do retorques a couple times after 100,500,1000 miles?
Did it pull the stud out the face, or did it just fall out the back? I'd think if it ripped the head out the face, that rotor would've broken around the hole. And that thing must've had one hell of a wobble leading up to that..you never noticed? I had snugged down my lugnuts once and forgot to fully torque them and I noticed within a 1/8 mile of getting on the road.
Studd had to have just fallen into the rotor, maybe pushed by a wheel in the throws of exstacy as it was gonna drop that load down onto the road. Might well still be in the hat. Wheel took the dust cap too huh?
Yes you are lucky, VERY lucky. Sorry to see the fender paid the price. Glad YOU are ok. You must of been going 5 MPH to not have left disk brake rotor drag marks in the pavement, or ground off part of the rotor. Or was your radius are bottom bolt dragging?
For the lug stud to come out the rotor, either wrong brake rotor, wrong lug stud. As far the lug nuts loosening up, are you 100% sure you has the correct lug nut for that rim? This a a F250 lug stud upgrade.
assuming those are the correct lugnuts, you do know the conical portion of the lugnut goes in toward the wheel? the picture looks like they are backwards...but it may just be the flash reflection.
assuming those are the correct lugnuts, you do know the conical portion of the lugnut goes in toward the wheel? the picture looks like they are backwards...but it may just be the flash reflection.
Fender appears to have a slight amount of damage. From this time, or perhaps from another incident?
All in all you are really luck to get out of that with no serious damage to your sheet metal, and with out a traffic accident.
Nice old truck.... by the way.
