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Later, it mentions that some wheels have a spherical ball mating surface to the nut, not a taper, and that would really be bad to use the wrong nut/wheel combo if that's the case.
Do your alum wheels have tapered nut seats, or ball nut seats?
I once had a car with steel wheels with ball nut seats, someone put standard taper lugs on one wheel, and it cracked out the wheel around all the nuts: the wheel fell off when I removed only one of the nuts! Fortunately, I caught it in my driveway. I was looking for the source of a cyclic squeak -- it was the wheel moving on the hub sideways because it was being held on by a single nut.
Hello All,
So problem solved I went with longer studs and the original lug nuts. I learned a lot I bought the 5995L and R lug nuts which would have worked with the original studs but ran out of threads before the wheel was tight with the longer studs. So in retrospect the nuts would have been the easiest solution, no pulling of the hubs.
Many thanks to folks on this site for your sage advice, to my diesel mechanic friend Doug H. and to Bianchi's Auto & Truck Parts in Winnemucca.
Best of Luck
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