Alcoa 'Hug a Lugs'
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04-21-2008, 03:26
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Alcoa 'Hug a Lugs'
Well,? Got my used Alcoa's on and the accessories consisting of the
Hub covers and the lug covers. Fifty miles down the road stopped for a drink and noticed that the one wheel was "necked" lost all ten Hug a Lugs and the hub cover. Being the genius you all know I am not I figured I better check the others and they were all loose. Loose enough that I could pull the hug covers off with my hands with really no effort at all. So I took them off and called Alcoa. They, with no questions ask, are replacing what I lost. Problem is of course how do you make them stay on. This is for stud piloted wheels. There is an inner clamp which is a nylon bushing which goes over the NUT. On the outside of this bushing are threads which hold the shiny stuff,but they do not get progressively tighter as the lug cover is tighted down. The force is simple the thickness of the inner clamp and the nut and the lug cover. There is not enough frictional resistance to the inner clamp sliding off the nut. They did send two sets of inner clamps (more like bushings) one white and one grey. The fellows said the grey ones were so tight they could use them. I can see several better ways to hold these lug covers on most all of which would involve threading something onto the stud not the the NUT. Alcoa tells me this is the "only thing they have for stud piloted wheels". My reason for posting is to see if you guys have a better answer for me. I had wheel simulators and they had a threaded attachment to the studs. These Alcoa wheel accessories are EXPENSIVE and I can't see how frictional resistance between the lug nut and the inner clamp followed but the screwed down Hug a Lug would ever be enough to secure these bits and pieces. Those that have alcoa wheels on studs tell me how you are holding on the hubs and nut covers. Got to be a better way. Maybe Alcoa is not the company to use for this stuff? It's pretty enough but I can't see how in the best of situations it would work. That being said the fellows at the tire shop did say that most of what they see on trucks etc is attached similarily. I like belts AND suspenders. This just doesn't seem right to me. John Heckman central Pa 1973 FC |
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