RE>>Tire recommendations wanted 11/2/95 >So until I can find time to get the nuts off (all frozen save one). The >van sits in the parking lot and Martine and I use the bike to get around. ====================== I have, for at least 20 years, and a half a dozen vehicles of all kinds, been putting a touch of a lead based high temp anti-sieze compund on my lug threads. I have NEVER had a frozen lug bolt or nut. Neither have I ever had one come loose either. Everything so treated has remained clean, no corrosion, and torques down nicely. I do tighten and torque all these lugs/nuts with a torque wrench, and the few times I have had to change a tire in an unanticipated situation, the stock wrench for whatever vehicle it was worked fine. I have used just the smallest dab on the threads, and for those lugs or nuts that have a contoured shoulder that mates to an opposite contour on the wheel, just a light touch at that interfaces as well. Harvey
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