msindi:

I hate wheel locks, haha. Always can never find them when you are trying to take the wheels of a customer's car.

Evan:

Another note to follow besides removing with a rachet and not the torque wrench (good tip btw) is to always torque the wheels using the 5 star pattern. Never go in a circle following one lug to the next. Always move across the hub to the lug directly across from the one you had just tightened. This helps to evenly tighten down the wheel and will not "warp" your rotors from tightening on side down before tightening down the other.

 

I do the same, with the difference that I bought the cordless impact wrench that Harbor Freight sells--around $100 in store, $150 online. It has 130 ft. lbs max and will easily remove the lug bolts and quite easy to control when snugging them up, and finishing the job with a torque wrench set to 96 ft. lbs.

DeWalt's better, but all the prices I've seen were quite a bit higher. But either way, the cordless impacts are very nice, if you do a lot of wheel swapping.

 

yup, it is generally not recommnded to use impact wrenches to loosen nuts but if u dont remove rims often it's a fu#kin bear to loosen em w/ a breaker bar

 

one more thing - if you used HRE's lugs, they have a 17mm head, not 19....obviously if you used the stock lugs then 19mm is the ticket...

 

HRE makes lugs?? My wheels came with no lugs and I used stock!!! No wonder they are so freakin tight!!

 

They don't make ballseat lugs which is what our stock cars come with...this came as a surprise to me and is why I had to have the ghetto lugs on my car for a bit...HRE "forgot" to tell me this .
Thanks Peter, I have ballseat (chrome) lugs, so they should be the same as stock...
Evan

 

thats why we recommend all of our customers use HRE's lugs...the 17mm head is a lot easier to remove than a 19mm...

the wheels can be cut for either ball (stock lugs) or conical seat (HRE lugs) - we always ask the customer first, but most people go for the conical seat and HRE 17mm lugs after we tell them about it

 

Man...Mike told me the exact opposite...he said to stick with the ball as that is factory, dealership won't hassle you, and thats what most people do . If I could do it over I would prob do Conical...maybe I will do it over again ....still working on it Peter, I will email you later
Evan

 

Id rather stick with factory style bolts to keep my wheel locks then....

 

I got chrome wheel locks BLING BLING LOCKS!!!
Evan

 

Really?? I was gonna get bling bolts and locks too but factory size from Ralph Booth...
I am confused now, should I do HRE bolts or stock on my 841s?? Is there an extra charge for hardware form HRE?? If so how much (16 bolts and 4 wheel locks in chrome!!)
Evan got any closeup pics of yo hardware?

 

Please excuse the very dirty car...these are not Ralph's, can't rember where I got um, but they were like 8 bux each and 14 each for the locks...

Evan

 

HRE does not charge for the lug bolts, but the lock set is optional.

 

I think I like the OEM more cause although the heads on these are smaller the body still fills up the whole 'bolt well' if you like...