Tires lug nuts

[tomp1]

I have a kubota L295DT and i just got it and would like to know if any one can tell me what way to turn the back wheel lug nuts are they left or right hand thread thank you Tom Putnam could any one with an answer email it to me at tputnam@usa.com once i log off here i can never find my question again or the answer thanks

 

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[leonz]

I have a kubota L295DT and i just got it and would like to know if any one can tell me what way to turn the back wheel lug nuts are they left or right hand thread thank you Tom Putnam could any one with an answer email it to me at tputnam@usa.com once i log off here i can never find my question again or the answer thanks

If there is any thread left to examine- a flashlight will help you see the threads and the angle of the pitch.

they should both be right hand thread as the axles are american made

not like the old army trucks with left hand thread on the left side and right hand thread on the right side-it saved a lot of wheels and studs that way though.



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[CharlieS]

Usually a lug with left hand threads will have an L stamped on the center of the lug bolt. Mixed applications have an R for right hand threads, L for left hand threads.

 

[CFHartman]

I have seen the left hand lug bolts. but I don't think ( I ) have ever seen left handed lug nuts. Not saying there not there just that I have not seen them

 

[CharlieS]

i've seen them many times.

 

[Chilly807]

They are right hand thread, and probably have 160 ft lbs of torque on them. Eat your wheaties and use a flex handle, maybe with a pipe. Unless you're built like a gorilla, a ratchet ain't going to cut it.

Sean

 

[KennyV]

All my Studebaker's had Left hand thread studs on the left ... Right hand on the right. KennyV

 

[Jim Thompson]

All my Studebaker's had Left hand thread studs on the left ... Right hand on the right. KennyV

So did Chrysler products until around 1960 or so.

Jim

 

[CFHartman]

Thanks Jim and KennyV that's what I wanted to hear. I know some Jeep pickup's in the early 50s had right and Left hand lug bolts.

 

[wushaw]

So did Chrysler products until around 1960 or so.

Jim

Add another 20+ years to that number and some 80 models Ford 3/4 & 1 ton pu's that put Chrysler Danas in em also had L/H threads.

 

[KubotaSam]

My 1953 Dodge Power Wagon has left hand on one side and right on the other.

 

[Jim Thompson]

Add another 20+ years to that number and some 80 models Ford 3/4 & 1 ton pu's that put Chrysler Danas in em also had L/H threads.

I had forgotten that. Not related, but I think that Ford also used the New Process transmissions and transfer cases from Chrysler.

Jim

 

[nickel plate]

In 1976 I rode my Harley from Santa Cruz , CA to Mexico City and back taking a little over a month to do so. While riding up Baja on the way home I came across a brand new motorhome parked off the road with a flat tire and two retired couples standing outside looking it over. I stopped to help and found out that they were unable to remove the tire with their lug wrench so being a healthy kid I attemped to remove it and try as I could, even jumping on the wrench, it would not budge. At that time, Mexico had set up a division of roadside assistance vehicles called the "Green Angels" due to the color of their trucks. Sure enough, it wasn't more than an hour and here one came. The fellow who owned the motorhome explained the dilemma to the Green Angel guy who then smiled back and turned the lug wrench over and removed the tire.

 

[Gordon Gould]

so being a healthy kid I attemped to remove it and try as I could, even jumping on the wrench, it would not budge. .

When I was in high school my friend's dad had an old English Ford he let us use. We got a flat - couldn't turn the lug wrench so jumped on it. Busted off three studs before we smartened up :laughing: Walked home. Got our A's kicked and paid for a new brake drum. Walked back with a tool box and fixed it. But we learned something.

 

[nunyabinis]

They are right hand thread, and probably have 160 ft lbs of torque on them. Eat your wheaties and use a flex handle, maybe with a pipe. Unless you're built like a gorilla, a ratchet ain't going to cut it.

Indeed. Last weekend I had to take the right-rear wheel off my JD 3038e so I could install new hydraulic lines for two new rear SCVs and my half-inch impact wrench wouldn't budge the lug bolts. The biggest pull handle I have still wasn't enough so I had to use a pipe over the pull handle to break the suckers loose. When I finally got them off they had some kind of white gook on them from the factory. I don't know if it was anti-seize or anti-break-the-suckers-loose.


Just about wrenched my back.