| Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,810 | Your pictures show a deadly dangerous mismatch between the lug nuts and the wheels. The wheels do not have a taper for the nuts to engage, and the squared-off shoulder of the wheel hole will damage the taper of the nut very quickly and cause the nuts to loosen up. Either get a machine shop to cut an accurate taper in the wheel holes to match the lug nuts, or use a flat nut with a thrust washer for a hub-centric wheel. Is the hole in the wheel a snug fit on the machined part of the hub? Those wheels were never intended to be mounted in a stud-centered application. Jerry
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