What is OEM Lugnut weight? Anyone use racing / light lugs?

[Hocrest]

Originally Posted by Maxo

That's good to know, will make me feel a little more at ease when I decide to use them. I do have the aluminum open-end lugs.

Hocrest, do you tighten them to the factory lug torque? Would a drop of blue locktite be a bad idea?

Yeah, somewhere around that. It's usually done with a breaker bar, not a torque wrench...

Our's are on for a few miles at a time then back off and regular lugs to get on the trailer. I've never noticed any to be loose, but again that is after a few miles at most.

I wouldn't use locktite, but instead, check them occasionally for the first week...

[RallyBob]

Originally Posted by Maxo

That's good to know, will make me feel a little more at ease when I decide to use them. I do have the aluminum open-end lugs.

Hocrest, do you tighten them to the factory lug torque? Would a drop of blue locktite be a bad idea?

Loctite is not a good idea. You stand a far greater chance of galling the threads upon removal, plus every time you removed the wheels you'd need to completely remove the old dried loctite from the studs and lugnuts and then re-apply the loctite again when tightening the wheels.

You're better off with clean threads and a light application of anti-seize, then torque about 5 ft lbs lower than spec with a calibrated torque wrench. If you use straight oil (10W-30 for example) to lube the threads, then torque to the factory spec.

Overtightening is always a bad idea as well, since you can surpass the stud's elasticity range, permanently stretching them. Failure is then imminent!

[ZMan]

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