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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic
Very very nice.
Why not just drill and tap the lug nut holes?
regards
Mech
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That was my original plan actually. However, once I drilled the hole into the top of the lug nut, I found out there really isn't much metal there to tap... Maybe a 32nd of an inch. That's when I came up with the idea of inserting a washer plus a nut and using epoxy to hold them in... I put anti-seize on the threads of the lug nut and on the bolt for the smaller nut, threaded the nut over the bolt so that it would stay true, "poured" the epoxy in, and then let it sit for ~12 hours. The bolts unthreaded fine, and no epoxy stuck to the lug nuts either.
I was worried the epoxy wouldn't hold strong enough, but I can actually tighten the bolts down pretty well.