Stainless Steel Lugs
12-09-2011, 08:21 PM
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This might be a little better photo of the Ti bolts. I had to shoot it with flash so it did wash out a bit. Also, the flash highlights the dust and small nicks.
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12-09-2011, 09:14 PM
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your pics are a little fuzzy so I cannot be sure, but it looks to me as though the center plug has a reverse thread. If that is the case, it would explain the purpose of having the center of the lugbolt drilled out and reverse-tapped. I love just about anything overengineered, who makes those bolts?
Do the "center plugs" at the top of the bolts have a reverse thread as Fin suggested? If so, what would be the reason to incorporate "center plugs" with reverse threads in the bolts?
12-10-2011, 01:21 AM
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The center plug is not reverse threaded.
12-10-2011, 11:52 AM
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The titanium CRC-machined lug bolts are the only suitable substitute to the factory steel lug bolts--albeit at a high price. Don't forsake strength, for weight savings with anything else.
01-26-2016, 07:31 PM
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I bought some brushed steel aftermarket bolts here on the forum. They are made by MaxSpeed and seem high quality but I did not realize that they did not have that free moving washer till they showed up.
Any issue with mounting these? Does it change the torque value any?
Thanks!
01-26-2016, 08:17 PM
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Did they not come with a ball shaped seat at all or is it simply a solid piece?
If there's no seat at all you are probably SOL IMO. If it's solid I'm still not sure I would use them but there are smarter metallurgists here who might be able to answer that better than I.
01-26-2016, 08:26 PM
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God bless you.
Did they not come with a ball shaped seat at all or is it simply a solid piece?
If there's no seat at all you are probably SOL IMO. If it's solid I'm still not sure I would use them but there are smarter metallurgists here who might be able to answer that better than I.
Did they not come with a ball shaped seat at all or is it simply a solid piece?
If there's no seat at all you are probably SOL IMO. If it's solid I'm still not sure I would use them but there are smarter metallurgists here who might be able to answer that better than I.
01-26-2016, 08:33 PM
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You don't need the free moving washer as long as the ball end is rounded like yours.
I have lugnuts and neither set I have has a moving washer. Whether it's necessary or not, and I'd probably operate the same if they had washers, I just snug everything down evenly so they all seat well before torquing.
I have lugnuts and neither set I have has a moving washer. Whether it's necessary or not, and I'd probably operate the same if they had washers, I just snug everything down evenly so they all seat well before torquing.
01-26-2016, 09:21 PM
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Coating the OEM bolts with zinc works great...
also- being that most of us do not touch our lug bolts too often, another rust-free alternative is to smear a fine coat of aluminum anti-seize grease on the bolts heads themselves.
The manual suggests putting this grease on the lug bolts and I noticed this to work in the past when I would change my wheels to summer/winter wheels and I would put some of this anti-seize grease on the bolt threads.
I was wearing rubber gloves when applying some anti-seize grease to the threads and I inadvertedly got some on the lug heads. I just left it there as it was so little it would not cause any problems and I found that it prevented the lugs from rusting and whatever rust was there was camouflaged by the aluminum colored grease.
also- being that most of us do not touch our lug bolts too often, another rust-free alternative is to smear a fine coat of aluminum anti-seize grease on the bolts heads themselves.
The manual suggests putting this grease on the lug bolts and I noticed this to work in the past when I would change my wheels to summer/winter wheels and I would put some of this anti-seize grease on the bolt threads.
I was wearing rubber gloves when applying some anti-seize grease to the threads and I inadvertedly got some on the lug heads. I just left it there as it was so little it would not cause any problems and I found that it prevented the lugs from rusting and whatever rust was there was camouflaged by the aluminum colored grease.
