Anyone use anti seize on their lug nuts?

[JDraper]

 

[TedJ]

Yep, I use anti-seize on my lugs. Never had a problem. When I bought my truck I took it to the shop and they tried to take the front right lugs off. One was finger-tight and the rest were fused on. Cost me a nice bit of $ for them to chisel them off. Anti-seize=good.

-Ted

BTW, the auto shop teacher at school uses it too...

 

[glfredrick]

Yep, I use anti-seize on my lugs. Never had a problem. When I bought my truck I took it to the shop and they tried to take the front right lugs off. One was finger-tight and the rest were fused on. Cost me a nice bit of $ for them to chisel them off. Anti-seize=good.

-Ted

BTW, the auto shop teacher at school uses it too...

Ah... another victim of the zip gun method of lug nut installation...

You know -- ZIP the first one on, get the wheel all ****eyed, then hammer the rest until the wheel sits flat.

 

[IZwack]

^-- x 2000

 

[CDW6212R]

Bingo, I have a Lincoln LSC SE with no lug nut key now that I broke it on one, and had to remove it with a driven on socket. Some of those lug nuts were over 200lbs.ft. tight, idiots with air guns.

 

[TedJ]

Today in auto shop I was balancing/roatating the tires on this kid's Honda (he's one of the full time kids in the auto major) and I put the tire on and started the lugs by hand, then just went till they stopped turning free with the gun. I told him to go get a torque wrench and torque em' but he says just put em on with the gun. I took the gun and handed it to him and said "I don't want to be responsible if you want to do it that way, do it yourself" I couldn't really argue b/c its his car, but he also works at a shop after school and you would think he would use his brain a bit more.... idiots

There are like 3 people the auto teacher trusts in the whole damn class and one of them is me...and i'm not even an auto major. I'm allways helping the other 2 fix cars that sit there broken. They're very good with mechanics and I'm good with wiring and electronics so we tend to do very well working together.

Everyone else in the major doesn't seem to want to actually learn or do anything and they just act like a bunch of jackoffs all the time...they're too stupid to realize what a great opportunity they're passing up. Its really sad when you look at them and think that these dumbasses are the future of America.

-Ted

 

[general x]

Your not alone as far as being the few who want to learn in auto class, every year that i was in auto in high school there was a select few who wanted to learn and everyone else in class just sat around, talked and goofed off. Its really sad because automotives class is such and excellent opportunity to learn about automotives and so many ppl abuse the privalege to be in the shop, usually to the point where the topic of closing down the auto shop is brought up amongst the school board because few ppl are benifiting from the class. My high school had the best autoshop in town and i remember in my grade 12 year hearing about the principals plans to clear out the auto shop and get computers installed in their place...so students could learn about rockets.....wtf!

 

[glfredrick]

Everyone else in the major doesn't seem to want to actually learn or do anything and they just act like a bunch of jackoffs all the time...they're too stupid to realize what a great opportunity they're passing up. Its really sad when you look at them and think that these dumbasses are the future of America. -Ted

Those guys are all going to go and get jobs at dealerships after they finish their schooling...

I'm only partially kidding... There are some great techs out there, but not as many as most folks think. While I was in route sales for Safety Kleen and later for Snap On, I got to get into a LOT of shops. I found that it was rare to actually find someone that was on the ball as a tech (versus a "mechanic" which is just a parts changer in my book). This is especially true with modern electronics and computer systems in vehicles. Most shops either don't have the equipment needed to accurately deal with those issues, or if they do, they don't know how to run it.

I've seen the "good ones" (the ones that actually go for training!) at the classes Snap On puts on -- and most of them were fairly ignorant. A handful actually stood out from the crowd, the rest were like dumb and dumber... the bus was way too short... At least they were trying...

 

[zwoobah]

Hi, first post, but figured I'd give a litte input for this thread. I use a brass brush to clean the corrosion/rust/old antiseize off my lug studs/bolts, and then use a very small dab of antiseize before I put them back on. I do this both on my truck and on my track-driven sports cars. The cars see very frequent wheel changes, between different sets of track tires and street tires - and the antiseize means that the torque values on the lugs will always be the same, instead of dependent upon how much rust is on the bolts. Use only a little though. The heat from your brakes will liquify the antiseize, and if you use too much it can get onto your rotors.

BTW, thanks to all the forum members for the great posts. I picked up my '91 Navajo a couple weeks ago and have already fixed a lot of little bugs with the help of the how-tos.

 

[TedJ]

Those guys are all going to go and get jobs at dealerships after they finish their schooling...

No kidding...one of the kids from my school got fired from a dealership and they just got one of my friends (who also works there and is one of the 2 good people from the shop) to work his hours too. They had the dumbass doing lube jobs and sweeping the floors and he could barely do that. My friend does all kinds of ****, whatever comes in, takes cars for test drives, gets free tools and **** from the head tech...its really nice...but he gets paid crap. They were cleaning some closet out and came across a Chilton's explorer/ranger/BII repair guide (why a caddy/buick dealer would have one idk) and my friend told him I had a ex so he said take it and give it to him. Its like new too

My high school had the best autoshop in town and i remember in my grade 12 year hearing about the principals plans to clear out the auto shop and get computers installed in their place...so students could learn about rockets.....wtf!

That's basically what's going on at my school... they're trying to get rid of all the physical/ hands on technical stuff and its all computers and CAD and buisness stuff. Book learning insn't worth anything if you don't get your hands dirty. You cant be taught to work on cars without actually doing it. They're trying to push more design and forcing the auto students to go down and be taught CAD now.

In 10-20 Years, who is gonna be fixing your car. Vo-Tech schools are steadily phasing out their auto programs...

-Ted

 

[general x]

Wouldnt be surprised if in 10-20 years you put your car on a track and robots take it apart and put it back together again, wont be long before they take over