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Sweet. Appreciate the response. Not bad at all.$1300 totally dis-assembled including the hinges and all push nuts and clips.
Good to see things are coming together finally! Yaaaay! Are the lug nuts on the wheel studs in the first picture there only for safety reasons or might they be those that will also be included in the final assembly?Finally getting to the good part, all this foreplay was getting frustrating!
Thanks... Recommend measuring the inside depth of of the lugnuts to ensure that they will fully accomodate the studs and don't bottom out. Also ensure that the flange portion of the lug nuts is the correct angle and completly covers the mating surfaces of the wheels where the lugnuts engage the wheel to secure it to the axle. Since the Gorilla nuts I ordered were back ordered, I used similar lugnuts (from Advanced Auto) when I installed new Hutchinson wheels and wallowed out the lugnut holes in the right rear wheel (where a lot of the torgue gets applied). Autopsy revealed that the lug nuts were to shallow for the studs and bottomed out at 110 ft lbs of torque not allowing proper contact with the wheel as well as the nut flanges being too small not completely covering the area around the hole in the wheel. Damn near lost the wheel and tire & wheel at highway speed having sheared off 4 of the lugstuds and destroyed the wheel. The Jeep specific Gorilla nuts I ordered arrived 2 days later.Both
You are welcome. I went by the size on the package 14x1.5 thinking, okay that's the right size, I only need them until my Gorilla nuts arrive. The thought that they were not deep enough or that the flange part was not wide enough never crossed my mind. I torqued them to 110 ft lbs not aware that the torque was applied against the end of the stud and not against the wheel.Thanks for the info, hopefully I checked with enough people to avoid that problem, length of stud vs wheel flange thickness, correct taper of lug nut seat and depth of lug nut. Fingers crossed as I used the same company lug nut on my spidertrax axles with 1 ton dodge rotors and brakes.