wheel nuts farken.

[vz6.0]

Afternoon gents,

Getting some tyres fitted to my vz and the tyre store goober has rounded off one of the wheel nuts, no big deal because after a rant he will fix for nix.

My question is this, why the bloody hell do the factory nuts end up so tight? I have another car with 1/2" studs that dont end up as tight as the crappy nuts on the towcar lol.

Obviously the wheels on the vz dont come off as often, but even after i torqued the bastards up with a warren and brown, the next time i wanted to get a wheel off it was hell tight.

Common problem, or am i a stooge (it could well be both lol)

[VX2VESS]

never had an issue...torque them up as well so all the same..

i do have anti seize lube on them all though...

sometimes a bit harder after some other fools take them off, but whenever i get work done I recheck and adjust them all straight away.

[cashie]

I haven't noticed them being any tighter...
I guess as long as they aren't rattle gunned the shit out of they will be fine (mine are always torqued up).

[Desertws6]

never had an issue...torque them up as well so all the same..

i do have anti seize lube on them all though...

sometimes a bit harder after some other fools take them off, but whenever i get work done I recheck and adjust them all straight away.

+1 Agreed


,Steve

[Drewie]

never had an issue...torque them up as well so all the same..

i do have anti seize lube on them all though...

sometimes a bit harder after some other fools take them off, but whenever i get work done I recheck and adjust them all straight away.

My mechanic torques my wheel nuts, so do I if I have to remove them,
I have read a bit re lubricating the wheel nuts, ie anti seize, there seems to be two schools of thought on the subject, some say grease can give a false torque reading or wheel nuts can losen, others seem to think it ok.
I used to lube mine but have recently went the other way. Worth googling it to read the different thoughts.

[VX2VESS]

My mechanic torques my wheel nuts, so do I if I have to remove them,
I have read a bit re lubricating the wheel nuts, ie anti seize, there seems to be two schools of thought on the subject, some say grease can give a false torque reading or wheel nuts can losen, others seem to think it ok.
I used to lube mine but have recently went the other way. Worth googling it to read the different thoughts.

don't use much very sparingly. you would get a false reading if trying to compact grease up inside.

[LS1-5.7]

All manufacturers now specify wheel nut torque. If they are tight one day it's probably coz someone's used a rattle gun to do them up. As mentioned, some grease or antiseize works well and do them up in a star pattern sequence.
Overtightened wheel nuts are not only a pain in the ass, but can seriously affect your brakes. The extra and uneven stresses placed on the hub with supertight wheel nuts can distort the hat of the disc and cause runout or disc thickness variation (shudder under brakes}.
Unless you work on your own car I would ask/insist that whoever is working on it for tyres or services whatever, that the wheel nuts be torqued up correctly. Stay to watch if the situation permits. :jester:

[Clubb'N]

why do you use anti seize lube on your wheel nuts?
things will strip or sheer before the nuts will seize ... unless ur a idiot and cross thread them to start with.
i really dont see them rusting together as an issue either.
No lube unless you're running aluminum items IMO

[daskip]

i rounded a nut off awhile back and had to pull out the hardened drill bits and drill out the stud what a mission that was :bawl:

[LS1-5.7]

You'd be surprised what some wheel cleaners and detergents can leave behind on the threads. A small amount of anti seize will prevent thread damage and components "bonding" onto the stud threads.