How many of you put anti-seize in your lugnuts? Why or why not?

 

well I WD-40 them everytime i take them off. never a bad idea to put something like that on them. just dont spray that kinda stuff on your rotors.

 

uh not me.

 

Not me. I rotate my wheels every 6k - so thats typically between 3-4 months. So I have never had any problems with the lug nuts seizing on me.

 

Mine did today. I tried to rotate my wheels and couldn't get a single one off. And no, I'm not a weak little ****.

 

Damn - did you get it off eventually or did you shear the stud? Anti-seize seems a bit extreme - wouldn't want that wheel to fly off...

 

No, I'm waiting for Mike to show up with his air tools for the 5spd swap. I need to do SOMETHING about this though and a dab of anti-seize was what came to mind.

 

would WD or Liquid Wrench be a less severe alternative? especially if a rotation is done every 3K?

 

do you torque your lug nuts to spec or over tighten them?

 

I didn't tighten them last time, a shop did. It was the middle of winter, my car needed some work done and I didn't have a garage at the time.

 

is 85 ft-lbs a good torque amount for wheels, or what? i usually tighten them as much as possible while the car is jacked up, then drop the car and torque them to 85 ft-lbs and then take a quick drive to let the wheels settle at all and then check the torque amount once more.

 

85 ft-lbs is fine... I think the spec. is 72-80ft-lbs or thereabouts. The key is consistency among all the lug-nuts, a few ft-lbs here or there isn't a big deal.

 

The shop probably WAY over-tightened them. I always make sure i re-tighten them after any work - because of this problem and to prevent warped rotors from uneven tightening. Maybe you should get your hands on a couple of spare studs - just in case it breaks while getting the wheel off... Good insurance to have.. the last think you want is a 5-spd you can't test drive!

 

No doubt. I need another set of wheel locks anyway. I had two sets but stripped the key for one. Now I'm down to a single set and only four lugs on each wheel.

 

I applied anti-seize after helping a friend put on HIS 17s. Made me never want to have to go through that much work on my own car just to get wheels off. The key is NOT having a shop tighten them. Like most things, they tend to just shortcut it and tighten till they can't tighten no more . . .

 

Heck no. I don't think anyone should have an issue getting the lugs off if they're tightened properly. Def "no" to the wd40 or any lub- I dun wanna risk losing a wheel! Those moo-moo service places always manage to destroy my wheel locks when they use a gun, and I always make 'em pay to replace em- Make sure ur clear to tell them to tighten manually.

 

i do because they're open ended, i dont want them to sieze up.
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I do now after having a number of studs stripping over the last couple of years. I was very leary of doing this becuase I thought they might come loose but a couple of pros I talked to indicated there should be no problems. Time has proven them to be correct as I haven't had a lug nut come loose since I've started doing this, and even better I haven't had to spend a day trying to cut a lug nut off of a stripped stud.

 

i use white lithium grease and never have a problem

 

a little wd-40 on them, really help, especially when I see small pieces of metal comming off when I take the lugs off. I dont want another stripped stud.

 

took my first lug nut off in about 1966. Never had one sieze.