turbotime

Ok, this is a kinda long sotry but im bored so im writin it...

I bought some progressive springs for an integra and they were cut for a eg hatch. I figure eg hatch, eg coupe, same thing.FIRST MISTAKE. So I buyt the springs for $15 locally. I get home, put them on my kyb agx's and then spend about another 3 hours getting them on the car. After everything is one the car it is painfully obvious the springs need to be switched as the car is almost lying on the ground .

So we pull the springs off and that takes about another hour or two. I have a rodatrip i needed to make on the weekend (next day) and seeing as how we had cut my OEM springs to get them off, i was in quite a pickle. I had OEM eg hatch springs lyin around so i put them on (2hrs) the front and the back. Although it was still sittin low, it was the best it was gonna get.

My buddy tightened down the front lugs while i worked on the rear struts. MISTAKE #2. So the next mornin I head out on my trip from MD to NY. This is where things start goin wrong:

About an hour into the trip i feel a weird vibration to the car going abut 70mph on the highway. I slow down and as my speed decreases the vibration increases. **** is all i can think, as i slow down more, it gets worse and worse, and louder.

I take the first exit i can and pull over in some random parking lot. Too my shock the lugs on the front left tire are loose enough to turn by hand!!!! After walking through a random town for about 20min i get some guy with an electric impact wrench to help me out. He drives me back to my car and hit the front left tire with the wrench.

wrrrr.. wrrrr. wrr r.. r. ....

DEAD BATTERY

christ, he goes back to his shop and gets another battery and tightens up the rest of the tires BUT NOT THE FRONT LEFT MISTAKE 3. Ok so I get back on the highway (81N) and about 10min later the sound is back, and worse. At this point there are no exit so i have to pull over on the shoulder of this huge highway. Its the tires again....

Me and my buddy backtrak about a mile and find a home deopt on the other side of the highway. After pickin up some tools and a long *** walk back to the car we managed to get it good and tight.

The thing that scares me is imagining the tire flying off at 70mph on a 4lane highway. Well thats the last time i let me buddy tighten my lugs!!!

Do you think my rotors are warped now cause of all this? I swear I can hear a slight hum when driving around, like the rotor is touchin the pad, and at 80+mph the vibration is quite apparent... what do you think?

oh and of course:

for me not bringin my tools on the road trip



Modified by turbotime at 3:03 AM 7/9/2004

Ej1_coupe

?... what does this have to do about tightening lugs?

SolObsession

Hmm... story was kinda short, not kinda long and I don't really understand what it has anything to do with tightening the lugs yourself?

snatch13

hmm.... where in there did you say anything about lugs?? and yea my experience with cut springs have not been good... even if they have worked on other cars

inane

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turbotime

sorry guys, i hit post b4 i finished, but now im done. oh and FYI I now am riding on agx + ground control and im very happy with it!

Ape

Shortend it so much that you left out the lug nuts part..

Ej1_coupe

ahh.. now i understand, yes it would have sucked if your tire would've flown off. Strangle your friend.

inane

i learned that the hard way too with my spark plugs and spark plug wires... i went out to get beer, came back... and my friend had put my spark plugs in without me knowing... he fucked one of the spark plugs up and i was running on three cylinders for too long and i threw a rod bearing... damn him!

SolObsession

Well, now that I reread it....wow you got lucky. I have had a similar experience and it sucks *****. Anyway, you didn't even have the "tire changing tools" in your car (wrench, jack, tire)?

Caretaker

lucky for you the tires did not fly off. call your friend and make him swallow the lugnuts.

Team 4R

always always always always always always click and then double-click all of your lugs with your torque wrench.... you have a torque wrench right? shouldn't have had this kind of problem in the first place.....

menkio

No offense bro.. this was a dumb post.. GDD would be better for this crap

Gump

iTrader: (1)

Same thing happen to my buddy two weeks ago on our way home from the track, he ended up breaking two studs, stripping another so that only one lug was holding it, he ended up having to get it towed to his apartment, then drive about 5 MPH to get to my house which is a couple miles away to fix it.

turbotime

heh, i had all the tools but i got circuit 8s so the HONDA wrench didnt fit in the hole to tighten the lug..

And yes, i do have a torque wrench, yet i assuumed my friend was not a total dumbass (of which i have been proven wrong) and would have tightened them down sufficiently.

So do you think my front left rotor is warped or damage becuase of it? I took a good look at it today when i put my GC's on but i didnt notice anything, of course i know a warp can be invisible to the eye.... but would that type of thing warp the rotor?

Got Milk

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Tad

about that sound,
its probly just the splash shield on yourbrakes scrapin on the rotor,
no biggie just bend it back.

and yo, if in a pickle, just go to a gas station,
you dont have to torque lugs perfectly to be safe,
any normal wrench will do, you dont need a torque wrench or impact or air tools,
just tighten it till its torque'd nice'n "tough"

wont fall off ,but you'd want to torque it to 80lbs soon

brizdo

you should invest in some air tools like from home depot and make sure his dumb@$$ dosnt just hand tighten anything anymore

jeffk182

Hes saying even if a good buddy tightens your lug nuts, check for yourself...i have similar experiences. Came home after installing Tokico Illuminas and my front left tire was hand tight.