Fmans Dart 427 build #9818 - 14" Leather steering wheel

[GTBradley]

It helps to understand why the spinners are reverse threaded on the right side of the car. The spinning motion of the wheels will tend to tighten the left side as they turn forward, but on the right side it would tend to loosen them because the forward motion acts in the same direct as loosening a right hand thread, thus a left hand thread is used. My first car was British and had wire wheels with knock off hubs and my dad was certain that I would loose a wheel at some point, so he hammered this point home.

As far as treatment of the spinners go, I use the o-ring, the set screw, no lube and a dead blow hammer to tighten. I figure as long as the threads are kept clean of corrosion they will do fine. The set screw has not done any real damage to the threads and in 3500 miles I’ve never had a spinner come lose or refuse to come off when I needed it too.

BTW, those door panels are one of the best purchases I made, very handy!