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Old Sep 21, 2011 | 05:39 AM
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Originally Posted by karls10jk
If you pop over to the spidertrax thread that is recent here, it suggests that possibly your nuts were overtorqued.
Yeah Karl I just saw that. Thing is I do all my own work and I didnt think I overtourqed em. I was thinking it was from pulling off the heavy tire and it dragged on the thread, thus f'ing it up and stripping the nut. However, I did rotations a ton of times on my XJ with 35's and never had this happen...oh well F it.
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Old Sep 21, 2011 | 06:09 AM
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Originally Posted by OH9JK
You can reuse the existing lug nuts if you want to. You can get the Gorilla or whoever spline style lugnuts in black. I got mine from Discount Tire they were right around $1.00 each.

I like them for a few reasons:
1. anti theft
2. small profile and wont tear your wheel up with socket during install
3. they are BLACK and go with my anti chrome theme

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I had those and they were rusty POS's in a year. I just replaced them with Gorilla Lifetime stainless/nickel 7/8" lugs.

Originally Posted by scotty6336
Those are pretty slick...I'd rather run something like this than 1 locking lug per wheel, those things SUCK IMO.

Slight hijack, I recently went to rotate again (do so every 3K) and broke THREE of the wheel studs on the rear. WTF? Anyone else have this happen???
I use anti-sieze on my lugs.
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