Besides the mentioned risks of overtorquing, to my understanding the anti-seize compounds have ground glass in them that hasten the destruction of the component parts. The message in the Fleet Owners article is that worn out lugs and nuts need to be replaced rather than compensated for. Also as suggested in the article, guys that have spent their lives in the shop aren't generally the ones that have to deal with the insurance investigators and lawyers. I had a shop foreman on a different forum a while back comment that he had an employee repeatedly twisting off grade 8 lugs because he was using anti-seize and putting the full torque to them. He took the anti-seize away from the guy and solved the problem. Stu
