Mighty.Mighty_XJ
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- VA ... in the dark
'92 XJ, now 6" lift, 33s, aluminum AR Outlaw II mag wheels. Lug nuts are the type that go into the holes on the wheel and use washers, instead of sitting on the wheel. I hate them. My wheel bearings are about a year old with very little wheeling.
So last Saturday a friend swapped out my 2" adjustable shackles for shorter boomerang shackles. Swap was done & the ACOS dialed down to match. I watched him impact the lug nuts back on & I took off thru his neighborhood. Shortly thereafter I felt a thud, but I just assumed it was the shackle hitting the exhaust or something. Then another thud. Then the XJ started to limp, listing towards 1 side. I immediately pulled over, thinking I had snapped a shackle bolt or something, only to discover the driver front wheel was being held on by 1 lug nut (de ja vu ...).
Long story short, I actually was able to account for all 5 lug nuts - one had snapped in 2, one was still on the hub, and I found the other 3 by walking back down the road. After the repair on the way home the XJ seemed wobbly, had a kind of vibration so I took it easy. We hadn't seen any visible signes of damage on the rotor or hub so I'm wondering what the problem might be. Any one have any ideas?
So last Saturday a friend swapped out my 2" adjustable shackles for shorter boomerang shackles. Swap was done & the ACOS dialed down to match. I watched him impact the lug nuts back on & I took off thru his neighborhood. Shortly thereafter I felt a thud, but I just assumed it was the shackle hitting the exhaust or something. Then another thud. Then the XJ started to limp, listing towards 1 side. I immediately pulled over, thinking I had snapped a shackle bolt or something, only to discover the driver front wheel was being held on by 1 lug nut (de ja vu ...).
Long story short, I actually was able to account for all 5 lug nuts - one had snapped in 2, one was still on the hub, and I found the other 3 by walking back down the road. After the repair on the way home the XJ seemed wobbly, had a kind of vibration so I took it easy. We hadn't seen any visible signes of damage on the rotor or hub so I'm wondering what the problem might be. Any one have any ideas?