What do your Nuts look like?

[blnewt]

Check my reply here, would be nice to find a set of spline nuts that work w/ aftermarket wheels and STILL have a decent area where it seats to the wheel. My spline nuts (and all the others that I've seen that work for smaller lug holes that aftermarket wheels have ) have such a minimal contact area where lug nut seat meets the wheels lug seat. Anyone know a spline lug nut that will work here and SAFELY have enough seat for these large & heavy wheel/tire combos/ And keep in mind, our JLs require 130 ft. lbs of torque so that small contact area is under even more stress.

https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/got-my-icon-rebounds.43125/#post-951511

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[gpurp]

The spline nuts arrived this evening. I can finally mount my new tires and wheels tomorrow because the nuts and spline key fit the lug nut holes perfectly. Here they are compared to the Mcgards. Keep in mind they're both advertised as M14x1.5 The spline nut is almost a half inch longer than the acorn. The base on the Mcgard has slightly more surface area but they both have a 60 degree slope.

 

[dsky]

The spline nuts arrived this evening. I can finally mount my new tires and wheels tomorrow because the nuts and spline key fit the lug nut holes perfectly. Here they are compared to the Mcgards. Keep in mind they're both advertised as M14x1.5 The spline nut is almost a half inch longer than the acorn.

Which lugs did you end up going with? Seems like I'm going to concede and switch to spline drive as this seems to be the easiest route.

 

[gpurp]

Which lugs did you end up going with? Seems like I'm going to concede and switch to spline drive as this seems to be the easiest route.

Got these right here.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QLAUDBY/ref=twister_B07TLDP92N?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

They look almost identical to the Rough Country version. I wouldn't be surprised if they all come from the same factory in China.

https://www.roughcountry.com/bulge-...m_medium=Retargeting&utm_campaign=LowerFunnel

 

[Ehmsea]

Wow! Op asking for pictures of our nuts, 2nd post talking about a mushroom, throw in a video about slap chop....
Best
Thread
Ever!

"You're going to love my nuts"

 

[Jimmy_jak]

So I'm waiting on my Fuel Shoks and Ridge Grapplers from DTD. Big shout out to them and Matt DTD here on the forum. I am getting some splined nuts from them, hope they are good.

If I don't like them I'll go the Mcgard route. Someone else hit the nail on the head. Almost 3k in wheels and tires, definitely don't want to find them missing one day.

 

[Pig-Pen]

i dont think the seat area is as critical as some may think. i was in the wheel business for over 10 years. everything from 1500ft lb torque drag cars/trucks to heavy street trucks. ive never heard of a lug breaking off due to this issue. the only time ive ever seen a wheel come off was due to insufficient torque applied when putting the wheels on OR non hub centric wheels being run without spacers (and not properly centered). for your aftermarket wheels, as long as you use a tapered lug nut and torque it properly, it will be fine. on stock wheels, use stock lug nuts or similar if a different color is desired. if you look at the wheels, the seating area is not very large as it is. the larger seating area of certain lugs may be to allow for wheels that have more seating area? if you feel adamantly that the seat surface area is critical please find a case on any vehicle forum where this has caused a failure to support this theory.

when running to super heavy set ups is likely when you need to swap to heavy duty studs. as do high torque applications like race cars.

 

[blink9cd]

I just went through this. Initially bought the McGard installation kit, which provides black cone lugs and black wheel locks (84585BK). They go on fine but realized they looked different than the OEM lugs. Found this thread and some others and eventually took them all off and bought 5 sets of the 4 packs of bulge cone lugs (64074) and the separate black wheel locks 5 pack (24516) to makes my own "kit" (for some reason they don't have an installation kit for the bulge cones).

Here's a pick with them all together, cone on left, bulge cone on right).

And here's the bulge cones with the wheel lock:

Final comparison, mopar lugs with the Mopar branded version of the McGard wheel locks:

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