Alabama thread!

Have you searched the forum? How those tires treating ya?

 

Did you verify that there was power AT the fuse, or did you just visually check the fuse?

 

So, my track day is Saturday, and you tech yourself. Went over things like a good boy scout, removed centercaps, OK, great... WTF? That's right, friends, somebody replaced one lug nut on 3 of the wheels with a regular hex nut from home depot or something.

Unless this is a lug nut that is open-faced...? That's a thing, right?

 

well it is a mazda...... what did you expect from someone that used to own it??? or are you mad because it wasnt a self tapping screw holding it on???

 

Actually, I had to get new tires a month or two ago. Surely firestone wouldn't let me leave without real lug nuts, right? I'll pull it off to make sure, but probably somebody just had some open-faced lug nuts lying around?

 

Yeah, now that I look, one of those is mismatched too. Wonderful. But probably OK. Phew.

 

There's definitely such thing as open face lug nuts. Usu it's for people running steel wheels on extended studs for non-track purposes or something similar.

 

Yup, I think it's good to go like it sits, just ghetto-looking. Who the F puts 3 different kind of lug nuts on one wheel (if you notice, the top lug is different from the other 2 capped lug nuts).

Awesome.

 

just rem, lug nuts are cheap. hospital bills are not. if in doubt..... swap em out!

 

I will get a set eventually, the issue is that I didn't notice until tonight and track day is tomorrow. I think they're good though.

 

i dont know where the hell you are but its morning here, not night..... i would say you still have some time??? wont take long its only 16 nuts dont even need to jack the car up, just lift with one hand and swap the lugs out with the other.

 

It's good man. They're all torqued, it's fine. I'm leaving straight from work to drive to Christina's parents' house, and then I need to be there at 7am tomorrow morning. It's not just changing them, although I don't know that I can jack up the front with my floor jack, I think it's too tall. It's also that I don't want to go run around hunting down lug nuts when I have limited time today because I need to get out of here to start driving. It's good.

 

I do. When I've got 3 jeeps getting worked on at once in my garage, you usually end up putting back whatever bolt you can find that works.

And yes, almost all of my lug nuts are open faced now because my impact broke the shell off them.

 

I'm way too OCD to mix and match lugnuts.

 

i'm way to cheap to go out and buy matching lug nuts.

 

Also depends... on the miata, I don't want it to look even more like a ghetto beater than it actually is. I doubt I'll care on a trail rig.

 

Anyone interested in my BAK Rollback Tonneau? I'm kind of interested in a Bestop Supertop that a member has for sale on here...

 

Just saw Jo at Baumhowers in Inverness.

 

You should have hid in the back of his truck and popped out and yelled SURPRISE when he came back. Would have been funny......Unless he's packing of course.

 

He didn't look like he was packing so I probably could have done that