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However a wheel nut problem at his stop caused it to last over 19 seconds.

Nor does he change the wheel nuts during pit stops.

The wheel nuts were so tight they seemed welded on.

Each of the wheels is attached by center locking wheel nuts.

It's like a mechanic letting someone drive off in a car with loose wheel nuts.

I reached into the door pocket and pulled out the heavy wheel nut spanner.

Lockable wheel nuts can stop a thief from stealing your wheels.

With a small adjustable wrench, remove the wheel nut from the axle.

Hamilton had an identical problem from the first pit stop with his left rear wheel nut not working properly.

Later in the race, Mario pitted for tires, and cross-threaded a wheel nut.

Next inspect the wheel nuts and other fasteners and tighten them if necessary.

Ronnie Peterson's victory chances were damaged at his pit stop when a wheel nut was lost under the car.

Panis lost the lead due to a stuck wheel nut when he pitted for rain tires.

'My advice would be to have locking wheel nuts fitted.

He would take him to the garage and get the apprentices to show him how to take off wheel nuts.

With another wrench, tighten the wheel nut.

In Malaysia, he retired from the race following problems with a new captive wheel nut system that the team introduced at the beginning of the season.

After greasing the bearings, adjust the cone and the wheel nut to the proper tightness.

Alloy wheels are fitted with locking wheel nuts.

Such machines are often used to fit wheelnuts and normally tighten all the wheel nuts simultaneously.

A stop for tyres on lap 34 took a disastrous 18 seconds when the right rear wheel nut refused to seat properly.

Replace the cone over the bearings and hand-tighten it; then replace the wheel nut.

That is Mokhtar tightening the wheel nuts.

The downfall of his performance was matched when a collision and then a dislodged wheel nut led to Webber not completing the race.

Smaller hubcaps with exposed wheel nuts.

The lug nuts on the left side of some automobiles.

He got the front end off the ground, but the lug nuts were rusted on.

She said mechanics told her that someone had removed the lug nuts.

Tightening the lug nuts on your car wheels is a good example.

All wheels now had five lug nuts (instead of four) Total production was 47,519.

As the vehicle moved forward, the lug nuts tend to tighten.

The big lug nuts on the sides were unscrewing themselves.

Then replace all the lug nuts and tighten them before you jack the car down again.

Loosening the lug nuts would take only a few minutes."

Additionally, under tightened lug nuts may come loose with time.

His pit crew, however, had already tried to loosen the lug nuts on the left side.

They were used until the development of the lug nut method attaching the wheel.

He got out of the car, helped line up the spare, and worked on tightening the lug nuts like a fine young man.

Buchanan still held the tire iron he'd used to replace the lug nuts.

Hernandez leaned on the massive lug nut, changed hands, tried harder.

She put on a new right front tire, tightening the lug nuts with a power wrench.

If words were lug nuts, he'd spin them in ways the guys down at the garage never dreamed of.

Center caps are often found on new cars to hide the lug nuts, and/or the bearing.

He then seized the lug nuts and wrenches from their automobile.

This is the particular mechanism at work in "Lug Nut."

Lug nuts should never be tightened in a circle.

"I'd love to be a lug nut," he said with a sigh, "though my girlfriend would say I already am."

Wrong lug nuts for the wheel will not properly center it and cause wobble.

This generation Accord was the first to use wheels with five lug nuts instead of the traditional four on 4-cylinder models.

Lug nuts can be difficult to remove, as they may become frozen to the wheel stud.