Badger90 Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 Now... land rover alloy wheel nuts, am i the only one that thinks that they are bloody awfull? them stupid little caps that they have, i have use my impact gun to undo my wheel nuts couple of time with out remebering that they have them caps on!!! now they are buggers to get off as all the caps are out of shap, i use the gun to spin them on loosly but i then torque them up to 140nm so i dont strech the studs i was told at some point that you can buy steel alloy wheel nuts????? true or fulse? like the freelander alloy nuts? but bigger? cheers sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco_al Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 i've got a mix n match set of nuts on my disco. some have got caps, and some haven't. easiest solution - clamp em in a vice and remove the caps from the nuts.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Sparkes Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 I don't know which model of Land Rover you are referring to, but you might be experiencing the same issue that has affected 38A wheel nuts. These are a steel nut inside a crimped on stainless steel cover. In normal use the cover never comes off. The steel nut rusts, and therefore swells. This deforms the cover such that the socket will not push over the swelled section. If you hammer the socket on you later have to hammer or lever it off again. The impact wrench has no effect on this problem, it's all down to the rust. Three possible cures. 1/ Cut off the stainless steel cover, clean the rust off, and use a smaller socket. I've never tried, but most people seem to give up after struggling to remove the first cover, and realise there are another 19 to do. 2/ Buy a replacement set of nuts, possibly secondhand from someone who is 'blinging up' to a set of wheels from a later vehicle, and has to buy new nuts for those wheels. 3/ Stainless steel nuts from, I think, Wrightway engineering. You need a stainless steel card, because plastic ones melt. (Expensive) HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger90 Posted May 13, 2010 Author Share Posted May 13, 2010 i have a k-reg 200tdi 90 but with 24spline axles from a p-reg automatic discovery. the nuts i have are the stainlees cap with the alloy nut. i have taken one of caps of.. it was not a nice job to do but after that i found out the nut inside is a 26mm not not 27mm when i bought a alloy wheel 27mm socket for alloy wheels. cheers for that.. i will have a look at the poeple you siad about. i did find some a min ago.. (i can not remeber the name) but they are £200 for set of 20 stainlees wheel nut cheers sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L19MUD Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 I have definately got a set of solid steel (ie with out the stupid caps) alloy wheel nuts that fit a defender/disco 1 and rangie. They are exactly the same shape and profile as the alloy ones with caps (but dont bend!) I dont however have any idea of a part number or where they came from . . . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickeyw Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 I don't know which model of Land Rover you are referring to, but you might be experiencing the same issue that has affected 38A wheel nuts. These are a steel nut inside a crimped on stainless steel cover. In normal use the cover never comes off. The steel nut rusts, and therefore swells. This deforms the cover such that the socket will not push over the swelled section. If you hammer the socket on you later have to hammer or lever it off again. The impact wrench has no effect on this problem, it's all down to the rust. Ahhhhhh!!!!!! Now it all makes sense to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger90 Posted May 13, 2010 Author Share Posted May 13, 2010 sorry david.. did you mean wrighgton engineering? well £200 for 20 wheel is a wee bit expensive but they look great.. cheers sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webbsite Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 Hi All, The actual wheelnuts you are all talking about are the steel wheelnuts from RRC's fitted with those fugly three spoke alloys wheels. They were fitted from the early 80's to '92/3, throw those nuts with the chrome covers in the bin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Sparkes Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 sorry david.. did you mean wrighgton engineering? well £200 for 20 wheel is a wee bit expensive but they look great.. cheers sam Yes, that's the firm I was thinking of. Well done solving my 'sounds like' clue, although I see from your link it's Wrington, not 'Wrighgton' :-) Regards, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landrover598 Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 I've got solid steel, alloy wheel nuts fitted to my 1984 RRC axles, standard land rover nuts for that model i think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landkeeper Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 as some of the previous posters have said the steel ones from rrc are the same wheel fitment and don't deform like the disco ones do however the capped ones from a disco are fine if you use a 6 point socket rather than a 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger90 Posted May 15, 2010 Author Share Posted May 15, 2010 ahhh i did not know that RRc have them.. i will have a look about then, landkeeper: i did use a 6 point socket, it will nackerd them lol. david: okay i missed the t out.. the link still works though lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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