Stainless steel lug nuts?

[crawlex]

I am looking for 100% stainless steel machined lugnuts for my Ram. Preferably they would have the oem 22mm hex. All I can find is stainless steel cladded lugs like the OEM ones but that is not what I am looking for.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

[H3LZSN1P3R]

There is a reason you wont find them.... to reach the required torque it will “gull” the internal threads just buy solid chrome ones

 

[Brewbud]

Stainless is much more susceptible to galling. I have seen trailer wheels that have been all SS but I haven't seen many. In truth, I can't say I have really looked for all SS lugnuts. I have seen SS fasteners fuse when used on boats. It is not something I would want to use as a lugnut.

 

[Brutal_HO]

All correct answers.

Galling | Fastenal

www.fastenal.com

 

[crawlex]

Wow. Very insightful. I am not longer in the market for SS lug nuts. Thank you for the resource, Brutal.

 

[Wmhjr]

Please - never ever ever use SS for such things! I've used precipitation hardened stainless in applications such as body bolts, etc - but NEVER for high stress environments! And even with them, you can NOT use a torque wrench or impact to tighten them. You have to use anti-seize, and slowly tighten them or they will hit the torque value as a result of galling before they are ever "tight".