how come we don't grease the wheel studs before we thread the nuts on them? seems like we should to me.
wheel stud question
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You should not use grease but an anti-seize compound on wheel studs/lug nuts.
Over the years I have used never seeze or grease on the open ended lug nuts. Here in Wisconsin with the salt in the winter the lugs can get frozen and little grease or never seize keeps that from happening. On my NSX which does not go out in the snow and salt I just put some WD-40 on the lugs just so they are not dry and provide a little lube because they are off and on several times a season for track maintenance.
i am "borrowing" it from someone named andrea who lives in Italy.Greybloke said:
he used to post a lot here. all i know about the woman in the picture is that she is "a great gal". :wink:
which anti-seize? i live in sacramento. no snow. no salt. gets cold though.D'Ecosse said:
http://www.adhesivecentral.com/products/lubricants/antiseize.htm
thankyou!D'Ecosse said:
Anti-seize is probably the best way to go since it resists heat fairly well. It's been designed to reduce the potential for threaded parts from seizing on each other if they are too hot, or have minor corrosion on them, and when high torque may be applied to fasteners or load bearing parts. Also it resist splashing all over things from the high centrifugal force a spinning wheel will generate like oil or grease would. Finally I would never use WD-40 on anything as a lubricant. I know they want you to think it's a lubricant but it really is more of a solvent than a lubricant and will dry out eventually. I've been using anti-seize since day one on my NSX and I've never had a wheel stud failure from the hundreds of times I've changed tires and brake pads over the years even on extremely hot wheel hubs just off a track session.
thankyou fearless leader.ATERPAK said:
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