Lug nuts seized, they have caps!!

[raroberts]

a little over two years ago I replaced my steel, rusting, trailer wheels with new aluminum wheels. The lug nuts were rusting too, so I bought the good ones (I thought) that were stainless steel. I had a blowout while on a trip and when I tried to take the nuts off one of them was very tight. I put a pipe over my breaker bar to make a long lever and the nut stripped (I thought). After many tries I finally pounded a smaller socket on the nut with a hammer and got the nut off. Upon inspecting the nut I was surprised to realized the nuts had a cap over the nut and it was the cap that was sliding over the nut. I looked at the rest of the nuts and the caps were all loose. I am posting this for you information,,take a look at your lug nuts the next time you take yours off. You do not want to be put in the same situation I was. I think I was very lucky to be able to get that nut off. Get solid nuts.

I do have a question. Does anyone know of a website that has good prices on good nuts? I need 48 of them.

[RJsfishin]

Yeah, like an owners manual knows everything !!
I have never heard of even one who had nuts come loose from never seize.

[ernie1]

Over the years I've used anti seize material on the lugs of my vehicles with absolutely no problems at all. I recently found out that my owners manual for my Toyota Prius says to not use anti seize nor any lubricant on the threads because the nuts may come loose. Now I'm really conflicted about what to do in the future. I think if I don't have any problems with the threads I'll "let sleeping dogs lie". If the threads start to look corroded or give me trouble I'll put a little dab on the offending area.

[fj12ryder]

Thanks for the link, that was pretty interesting. Of course I especially think so because I agree with his findings. 🙂 I started using anti-seize for the same reason he did: rusted lug nuts that I almost could not get off. I vowed "Never Again".

[drsteve]

If you use anti-seize on lug nuts, be sure to NOT apply any under the lug nut where it meets the wheel. An interesting thread on the subject, with links, is here:

[Tachdriver]

Careful using anti-sieze and the same torque value: Torque is related to friction and anti-sieze changes the friction

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[fj12ryder]

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[Shadow_Catcher]

The reason I use anti-sieze and correct for using lubrication in torque value.

[time2roll]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/190766939990?lpid=82

[michael8rc]

Does anyone have a good source for excellent lug nuts?

[hammer21661]

Make sure you use a 6 point socket. Mine has them and I used a 12 point a few times then I had to go to a 6 most of them survived with a little help from the hammer.

[fj12ryder]

I had that happen on a friend's car, and he didn't know they were caps. We had one heck of a time getting them off. Just makes you want to go back to the shop and use that impact gun on some other nuts.

[TucsonJim]

I used to work in a Goodyear tire shop. Those cheap things would drive us nuts. We found the best way to get them off was to pound a heave duty socket onto them, and rip 'em apart with an impact wrench. Of course, we'd have to get the customer's permission first because they'd have to pay for new lug nuts. When we showed them why, they were usually happy to replace them with solid nuts in case they encountered a flat tire in their journeys.

[ScottG]

They'll go to the ends of the earth to make something cheaply wont they.
Thanks for the heads up.