CS78 said:

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Let me guess, it was the back left? Chevy 10 bolt rear axles are oddly notorious for losing the back left wheel. Happened to me over 20 years ago. Ive seen it a ton since then. Assume it has something to do with harmonics/vibrations.

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I don't think any vehicle that takes 8qt of oil has a 10 bolt rearend

When I was about 12-13 I worked one summer picking and loading water melons for my uncle just west of Franklin, Texas. We were following a pickup truck that was heading to our field so we could load him up. I was standing in the bed of a truck and watching the vehicle in front of us. Suddenly I saw a cloud of dirt from the road and a wheel flying off into the ditch. It turned out that the older man's grand son had taken some of his lug nuts for his own vehicle and never replaced them. It's just one of those memories that never leaves my mind.

Don't Chevy 1/2 tons still have 10 bolts?

The only wheels I recall coming off all relate to Sumlin-era Aggie football teams somewhere around November.

Had it happen on a trailer about 6 weeks ago. Taking boy scouts camping and I'm pulling the troop trailer. Got a call from the car behind us that we lost a wheel, I never knew it. I'm still not sure how it happened but something started vibrating and it chewed the center out of the wheel, broke a couple of studs off. Lugnuts were still on two of the remaining studs, hub still spun fine, bearings were still good. Weird.
Thank goodness the trailer was well balanced and we just rolled on with three wheels.
Next troop meeting the boys learned how to replace a hub on a trailer.

CS78 said:

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Don't Chevy 1/2 tons still have 10 bolts?

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You're right, he did say it was a 1500...but then he said it takes 8qts of oil?

Truck has 6 bolt pattern and with 5.3L V8 uses 8 qts of 0w-20

https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/chevrolet/vehicles.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2013/May/Silverado-May-5/0505-silv-specs.html#crew

Had no idea the 5.3 took 8 quarts! Just about every vehicle I've ever had took 5. Maybe 8 by the time you put in a couple quarts between changes... Sorry for the hijack

No problem! I think that it was new for when they did the redesign for 2014

Was a passenger in a mid 70's Bronco in the mid 80's headed east on Hwy 190 just east of Point Blank, TX. Traveling at highway speed of ~65mph. All of a sudden, the rear end slammed on the pavement and the Bronco started sliding off the road with sparks flying everywhere. I looked in the right side mirror and saw the back end was on fire -- and foolishly -- opened the door and jumped from the vehicle.

I escaped injury but only by the grace of God; the careening Bronco almost ran over me after I jumped.

The right wheel bearing froze, which caused the axle to snap at the wheel. The "fire" was simply the rear-end fluid that ignited due to the friction/heat, but it wasn't a gasoline fire that I initially feared when I decided to jump. In hindsight, I should have stayed in the Bronco.

We were only a mile from the two mile Lake Livingston bridge, and things might have turned out very differently if that axle snapped while we were on the bridge.

Spring of 99 I had one not fall off but fly off my car near Madisonville. My fault since I rotated my tires in Dallas myself and apparently forgot a step.



That was a $2500 mistake...

blindey said:

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The only wheels I recall coming off all relate to Sumlin-era Aggie football teams somewhere around November.

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Ouch.... too soon.

Yeah you get to replace the rotor when the pavement grinds a flat spot on it.

Headed up I-45 on the north side of Houston. Right after an eighteen wheeler had almost run me off the road due to the eternal construction, a huge wheel comes bouncing from my left between my car and the vehicle in front of us. Since the "walls of death" were on both sides of the freeway I had no recourse but to hope it missed us which it did. I have no idea where it wound up but I vowed to fly the next time we went to Dallas.

Had the same thing happen, only when the bolt sheared it sliced my wheel open like a can opener. Initially thought I had blown a tire. I hadn't noticed anything prior to the bolt shearing and the tire going flat.

I had the left wheel of my Cessna 172 come off just as I turned off the runway when landing. Just completed an Annual on it two days before. Me and that A&P had a long talk.
I spent a lot of time thanking the Man upstairs that night!

Well I can report that I got the truck back. They replaced the wheel, rotor, dust cover, etc everything on that side. Axle and differential were in good condition still and they changed differential fluid. Service manager gave me the next 5 oil changes free too lol

Holy shiat!