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Melbourne's East
Registered:
March 2005
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Tightening nuts on alloy wheels
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Sun, 07 August 2005 12:31
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I know you're supposed to retighten the nuts on allow wheels every 1000km(?) or something but does anyone know a practical way of keeping the nuts tight without having to retighten them all the time? Gets scary sometimes. Check my nuts (my wheel nuts) occationally at the servo and sometimes there bearly hanging on ie can screw them up by hand.
Cheers
Glen
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Location:
Eskilstuna, Sweden
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Tightening nuts on alloy wheels
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Sun, 07 August 2005 13:20
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This might sound like a silly answer but have you tried thread lock?
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Location:
Canberra
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Tightening nuts on alloy wheels
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Sun, 07 August 2005 13:27
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HOLY shit man, are you using a 1/4 drive "T" bar to do them up?
Steel wheel nuts, generally "grow" to Aluminium wheels.
A little lube on installation, will prevent the binding. Oil the threads and the shank/taper.
Use a wheel brace, or the standard wheel spanner that comes with the car. If these dont fit, use a socket with a breaker bar, equal to the length of the standard wheel spanner.
cheers Chuck
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I Supported Toymods
Location:
melbourne.vic.au
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Tightening nuts on alloy wheels
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Sun, 07 August 2005 13:28
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I tighten them up with a wrench then take the car around the block... after that I use a torque wrench at the recommended torque settings in the service manuals.
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Location:
Eskilstuna, Sweden
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Tightening nuts on alloy wheels
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Sun, 07 August 2005 13:35
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most good quality alloy wheels actually have steel inserts where the wheels studs are.
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I Supported Toymods
Location:
south Melbourne/KL
Registered:
June 2004
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Re: Tightening nuts on alloy wheels
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Sun, 07 August 2005 18:09
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never knew about tightening every 1000 km. anyway mine became loose after driving around for a day. and yes i know the scary feeling when u can remove bolts by hand. however, when the bolts are loose u can hear funny noises, which makes u think that ur cv joints need a change..
when i tighten my nuts, i just use the tool that came with the car and go crazee jumping on it giving it a full 75kg of jerky force.
mine doesnt go loose anymore now
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