JasonJ
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Sooo..the day before yesterday I replaced the drivers side trailing arm bushing on my Ford F150. I removed the wheel, spring, shock, all that. It was a pain, but I got it done. I put the wheel back on, zipped the lugnuts on with the impact, and dropped it back on the ground, telling myself "tighten those lugnuts". I then proceeded to replace both manual locking hubs with auto hubs, went for a test drive, all was good, that was that. Yesterday I used my truck at work, had to drive about 40 miles at highway speed. Got to the destination, worked , and was coming back when I started hearing a "thunka-thunka-thunka" sound. Needless to say, I thought "great, those auto hubs are already messing up" but it seemed like there was something I was forgetting. <br /><br /> Right then I got a call from the boss to go to another house to help the other guys (we do professional Christmas lighting also), so I turned around and headed to that house, another ten miles or so. Thunka-thunka-thunka was just getting louder, and it reminded me of the time I forgot to tighten the lugnuts on a Subaru I had and BAM, I remembered. I didn't tighten my lugnuts the day before. I got to the house and checked, and sure as heck, all the lugnuts were backed halfway off and the wheel was floppin'. Busted out the lugwrench and fixed that. What a moron....
