Today was Daystar and Link install which was going great - 2hrs in, no issues. Both air struts going back in, I finished the passenger side and then it felt like an IED went off outside the garage (I’m doing it in my 15x35 rented garage that has 10ish other units) so I quickly ran outside with an aid bag from the backseat of my truck and see a dude standing in shock about 20ft from his trailer that we was inflating the tire on. He was using an air compressor, had it locked onto the valve stem and then ran to answer his phone inside his garage and didn’t realize how much time had passed. The tire blew up. Destroyed the hub, axle, rim, and bent the side tubing on his landscape trailer. He was fine. His equipment on the trailer and the trailer itself was far from it. Thank goodness he wasn’t standing next to the tire when it happened.
After that settled I went back into my garage, got to work on the drivers side, started torquing the strut nuts down and over-torqued one of the nuts onto the daystar thread extenders and snapped it clean off. My mind was racing. Thankfully Revel Performance has great customer service and I should have a new one in the mail tomorrow.
Wild day. The truck is sitting on jack stands for now. Tire rotation, link and daystar install, and wheel well cleaning. With a major hiccup.
Lesson learned.