Bolt on wheel simulators and keeping them bolted on

Short answer is I put nothing on wheel lugs or lug nuts. I just make sure every thing is properly tight.

I'm driving my first RV so I do not know if all work the same was. Hear goes.
The simulator is held on by a nut that threads over a very short connecting nut that threads onto the lug stud outside the lug nut that holds the wheel. My RV came with a special "T" handled wrench for the chrome cap nut, and an alan wrench for the conecting nut.
When removing the simulator the connecting nut almost always comes off with the cap nut. I always remove the connecting nut (with the allen wrench) from cap nut and put the connecting nuts (two per wheel) on the wheel studs with as much force as I can put on the alan wrench. The Alan wrench is to short to over torque the nut or bolt.
With the connecting nuts on i mount the simulator on the wheel waing the provided wrench.
If the connecting nut is left inside the cap nut when mounting the simulator I believe you can't get the assembly as smug.

Thanks

Do you put anything on to make sure they stay on? (lock tite, tape, glue ???)

I have read of the simulators coming off on the Lazy Daze forum. Now if going to a tire store for anything I remove the sulators the pit them back myself. Also once or twice a year I take them off to clean and shine them with a polymer based wax. Every time I do this I think about painting the wheels and getting some dress lug nuts.
Note don't natural wax like Carnauba. The wax gets warm and then brake dust sticks to the simulator. Natural wax is good on the paint just not on wheels.

Had the same thing happen to us. New tires, not tightened. We footed the bill though--after all we didn't check them--and the nuts that fit were hard to find and darned expensive. I also bought the T wrench to tighten them but even without locktite, we find that they stay tight on their own. Just have to be tightened when installed!

I had one of my simulators skip right off down the road. I had just had 6 new tires put on and the kid forgot to tighten the lock-nuts on them all. It cost Kal-Tire most of $65.00 for two nuts and two extenders from Pacific Dually.


Gary Haupt