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Do you anti-seize lug nuts?

Make 'em silver?

  • Always

    Votes: 58 40.3%

  • Never

    Votes: 86 59.7%
  • Total voters
    144
I Lean

I Lean

skull
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The poll question says it all.

But to elaborate for people who like to read more....I've always been in the "use it" camp. I have fought with seized lug nuts, and broken off studs that follow. I have never witnessed any problems from having lubed threads. It seems to me that if you're relying on the friction of dry threads to retain your lug nut, it's already loose.

My son is training as a mechanic at a dealership, and his mentor (who has been a mechanic for 147 years) will clean any anti-seize off the lugs before they send a car out--so obviously he's in the "never" group.

So I can see the benefits of using it. Any downsides have only been hearsay, as far as I can tell. I'd love to be educated if I'm incorrect. Or validated if I'm still good to go. :grinpimp:
 
Never. Always leads to thread stretch and galling. I dont know of a single manufacturer that uses a wet spec for lugs. 90% of the wheel studs ive replaced in my career had anti sieze on them.

The rest are the rams where they shear off.
 
Only thing I’ll do is apply a bit of spray lube to the studs to keep the threads from getting caked with crap. I used to do it on every semi truck at a shop I worked at but na… now if I had a race car or something where I pulled the wheels more often I would to help make the studs and nuts last longer.
 
I used to.

Then I did track days with my car. Even though lug nuts were torqued to spec, they came loose.Heat from the brakes maybe???
 
It's something old-timers do even though it really isn't necessary. Most lugs that won't come off were over-torqued to begin with. And because it's a lubricant it can lead to over-torquing and thread damage when you do you use it as most torque specs are for dry threads.
 
On the Jeep I run a light coat of anti-seize on wheel studs, then calculate the wet torque spec. or use the low end of a torque range (e.g., 85-110 ft-lbs gets 85). Outside the rust belt, I only worry about it on stuff that'll see road salt or go through water over a foot deep.
 
I've never used anti seize on anything and it's never been an issue.
 
cj3a said:
Not needed every time but I use a little grease. How many people use a torque wrench should be the question.
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Every time on lug nuts, just rotated tires today, and after 100 miles I'll retorque and call it good.

I usually wipe down the studs and apply a sparing amount.
 
I voted “always”.. though that isn’t always the case.

There is a huge difference in torque spec for dry vs lubed threads.. don’t be an animal, torque them equally and enjoy rust free threads when you’re in a bad spot trying to remove a wheel that’s been installed longer than the average consumer’s.

*it’s not always never sieze.. wd-40 or whatever is close at hand.
 
cj3a said:
How many people use a torque wrench should be the question.
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I try and put tires on with whatever tools are goona stay in the truck. Same for the bike and tools I carry. Keeps from finding something that got rattled on way to fucking tight:homer:
 
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Never

I worked at discount tire, they didn't, I worked at an oem dealership they didn't, as people have said, it affects the tq. I defer to the enginerds and lyers on this one

At best, something crusty might get a couple drops of oil or panther piss
 
I aways wipe a bit onto the threads and scrub a bit of it on the wms on the wheel and hub surface to clean them both. I use the minimum torque value. Toyota, GM, Ford vehicles. Not one stud broken or loose wheel in 40+ years.
 
On my own stuff never, at work yea cause its required, dude who works in bay next to me that does all the trailers uses a mix of dish soap and water in a spray bottle for lug nuts everytime. Seems nuts to me but i can say i never see him replacing studs or nuts other than what gets messed up by drivers damage.
 
Nope never.

Dry torque specs are dry.

Don’t use crappy lug nuts, replace them when they show rust.

Anyone who has issues brings it in themselves. Tire rotations should bring to light bad nuts well in advance of seizing.
 
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