Lugnuts

[Full Curl Ram]

Mu 2014 Bighorn has the OEM alloy 20 inch wheels. I bought a used set of 17 inch Gen 4 Rebel wheels a couple fo years ago and am finally getting around to putting tires on them but don't rememebr if I got lugnuts with the wheels or not. Soooo will the lugnuts off my 20 inch wheels work on the Rebel wheels or will I need to buy new ones? If I need new ones, what do I need to get? Thanks!

 

[OC455]

Pretty sure the lug nuts are standard across the board for the half tons.

 

[John Jensen]

Your factory nuts are 22mm, tapered 60° Acorn Bulge.
I suggest you ask Rebel if the OEM nuts will work. The tapered 60° Acorn Bulge nay not fit the Rebels properly

 

[Burla]

The problem is your oem is likely capped lugs, it is a cheap cap "welded" to a post, if that cap comes off, good luck getting the tire off in an emergency. Get a solid set of lugnuts like gorillas. What fits depends on the rim, I believe rebels are also acorn, even though they are on my tire, I forget if they work, but even if they work, you don't want them, oem ram lugs are faulty.

 

[Burla]

This top part is a cap, not solid. Those caps do come off over time, and that sir is your a$$ in a sling. Buy fca likely saved .3 cents per lug this way so that is what we get, and we have to pay 50 dollars for something they saved cents on, but whatever. The cost is horrible if that cap comes off man.

 

[Burla]

If you get the Gorillas, those short ones will work, some vendors say get the tall ones, I don't know why, the oem replacement size posted is what I run on my truck.

 

[John Jensen]

The problem is your oem is likely capped lugs, it is a cheap cap "welded" to a post, if that cap comes off, good luck getting the tire off in an emergency. Get a solid set of lugnuts like gorillas. What fits depends on the rim, I believe rebels are also acorn, even though they are on my tire, I forget if they work, but even if they work, you don't want them, oem ram lugs are faulty.

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Good advice. The OEM caps didn't come off on my2016, they rotated over the inside nut, then a wrench would not fit.
Got some all steel aftermarkets. My size Gorillas were OS at the time.

 

[Burla]

https://youtu.be/iG3V59HQCQ8?t=152

If your cap comes off if you are lucky a hammer and chisel and smaller socket will work to get rim off. see vid

 

[Burla]

There gorillas fit my 2010 ram 1500, both the stock garbage rims and the rebel replacements... Gorilla replacements only. Message to OP, smart man, always good to ask questions, that is what we do here. The lugs below are black and are on my rebel rimes as we speak.

66198BDX or GL-66198BDX

 

[Jeepwalker]

I would take the 'cap' style over cheap aftermarket lug nuts any day -- where I live. In the snowy north aftermarket lug nuts will rust up in one winter (two for sure!) and look like crap. The OEM lugnuts have a stainless cap on them that won't rust and look great for many years if you treat them right. The problem most owners go to a tire shop and they zip them off and on with a high-powered air impact. After a couple times, the cap becomes distorted and stretched. They become loose and moisture gets behind and rusts. Rust can develop beneath the cap which expands under the cap and a socket won't fit (well, you can use the next larger socket).

There's a way to preserve them, but most guys probably don't want to go to this level of effort, but ...if you buy a new set of OEM lug nuts (new take-offs from ebay are usually the best price), or you can do this to your truck's OEM lugnuts if they still look good. Put a little RTV around the base of the stainless cap with your finger. Keep it off the wheel mating surface. Let cure and install with a hand wrench. I always remove/install mine with a hand t-wrench or breaker bar ....and take my wheels in to the shop separately for new tires on my own (off the vehicle).

Take a little care they'll look great and last for many many yrs! I did that on my plow Jeep many yrs ago and they still look great and aren't rusted behind ..and it sees a lot of salt.

Probably in southern and western states where rust isn't an issue, aftermarket lug nuts might be a decent solution.

 

[Burla]

OP if you want chrome just take the B out of the number above, sends you to chrome. Caps rust, I don't even live in snow state and my lugs rusted, not like this but close. Of course tossed them a year ago. And the worse part, it is the cap that rusts, lol. In colorado or any snow state you should use anti seize imo. Do a second torque down after 100 miles everytime you take a tire off. If a solid lug nut rusts it still isnt gonna spin creating the issue in the video above, which every single cap lug nut is a possibility. And I'm not sure gorillas rust, maybe they do, I just don't know, mine havent.

 

[Burla]

looking it up Gorillas can rust as well thanks for that contribution, however the threads I looked it up where guys use anti seize and oil coating, they are able to keep rust away. I'm not sure of any rust proof lugs in salt belt, maybe they exist, maybe not. but I prefer solid to capped. Protect anything from salt, I imagine fluid film on body plus anti seize on threads is a good start. id probably fluid film them in the hole, just wipe off excess.

 

[Jeepwalker]

Just don't put oil on the actual nut-to-rim contact area... You don't want them to loosen.

Maybe install them and then spray down with oil