Lug nut cutting

[DocPhil]

Has anyone cut their lug nuts for wheel spacers? If so, how did you do it.
Thanks

 

[8ball_99]

I did on my 1500. I just used a angle grinder with a cutoff wheel. It zipped right trough them. You can see how much i removed by the piece on top of the spacer. I followed up with a chamfer bit on the studs after I cut them to round them off.

 

[geddyflea]

I did on my 1500. I just used a angle grinder with a cutoff wheel. It zipped right trough them. You can see how much i removed by the piece on top of the spacer. I followed up with a chamfer bit on the studs after I cut them to round them off.
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I did mine almost exactly same way after I read your post about a year ago. The only things I did differently was I put the nuts on the lugs before I cut to be able to clear / rethread the threads when i backed them off. I also put a wet rag on the lugs as I cut to help absorb some of the heat from cutting.

 

[AXE]

I did mine almost exactly same way after I read your post about a year ago. The only things I did differently was I put the nuts on the lugs before I cut to be able to clear / rethread the threads when i backed them off. I also put a wet rag on the lugs as I cut to help absorb some of the heat from cutting.

If you don't control heat, you don't have the same temper as stock.

 

[8ball_99]

You would have to heat them up 500+ degrees to screw up the temper. No different then grinding on a knife. When I cut mine I moved around to different ones cutting a little at a time. They never really got very hot at all.

 

[MrScottly]

I'd like to bet the brake rotor throws more heat into those studs than a cutoff wheel does, because the cutoff wheel is abrasive and the heat-affected material is being expelled from the surface.

 

[geddyflea]

Why chance it....take about 10 seconds and throw a wet rag on it, cut it and call it a day. Or if you prefer not to do it, don't. It's cool either way.

 

[AXE]

Put your little pecker on it and tell me how fucking hot it got!

Anybody sharpening a knife with a grinder or a belt sander doesn't know how to sharpen a knife.

 

[Busa Dave]

Why chance it....take about 10 seconds and throw a wet rag on it, cut it and call it a day. Or if you prefer not to do it, don't. It's cool either way.

There is an alternative. I do this when fireforming brass for my rifle barrels on the outside of the chamber area with a fast burning pistol powder with no bullet. Use a can of compressed air turn it upside down and it comes out as a liquid at over 100 degrees below zero. Will not take much to take the heat out of this small amount of mass from a wheel stud.