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Originally Posted by Henn28
A recent massive over torquing of my lug bolts, coupled with our recent discussion of bolt plasticity, failure, etc. motivated me to replace my 20+ year old bolts. I am no expert for sure, but I wonder if they may have been stretched to, or beyond some limit. I needed a 3’ jack handle on a 2’ breaker bar to get them off. And even then it was a struggle.
New lug bolts, including a new locking style.
It’s nice to do a job in the x5 where I didn’t need to put it in the air!
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The first thing I did when the X5 showed up was remove the wheels with mismatched bald tires, and run the m14x1.5 chaser tap with some WD-40 into the lug holes. And the die on the lug bolts. Replacing the bolts would be nice but wasn't really necessary, they cleaned up good. You should clean/chase the holes out there's junk in there on your new bolts. Also the usual 80 grit sandpaper on hubs, rust inhibitor, and a nice little bit of anti seize was first up.
I've been using this all the time it's great it doesn't cut anything just cleans all the dirt and stuff out so everything spins real nice. Very satisfying.
https://ctatools.com/products/8240 there are other kits out there. The chaser taps are really nice on this nearly 20 year old unit. You can also take an angle grinder and cut a slit or two into a bolt.