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Originally Posted by doggy
You mean CHEAP EBAY ones right?
I'v used lots of nuts from differenet brand (not cheapos) nuts - and NEVER had any problems... Even our race car is running on Rays aluminium nuts for last 3 years - and never ever had any problem..
Ussualy people overtight them - and then blame it on for them beeing aluminium. Its pretty easy to read over and find torque settings for all the nuts - and use a torque tool...
Easyest way to take off broken nut - is just to drill the stud out and replace it with new one.
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No I mean ANY
aluminium nuts are a throw away item. They should be used once. Period. Regardless of the brand. This is from a metallurgical point of view. You can argue with annecdotes all day of you want to
Also since al alloys distort differently to steel alloys, as you said, they should be torqued slightly differently.