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The Chevrolet Silverado is one of the best selling trucks of all time. It is rugged, reliable and available with four-wheel drive. However, the front hub assembly must be serviced or replaced occasionally, due to wear and tear. When this happens, the hub nut, which connects the axle shaft to the hub assembly, must be tightened to the right torque setting. If it is not tightened enough, it will loosen and cause an unsafe condition in the front end. On the other hand, over tightening can strip the threads, leading to a costly repair. It also subjects the bearings to unnecessary heat and wear.

Clean the Parts

The underside of a car may be covered with dirt, oil, grime, snow or ice. Clean the parts thoroughly with brake cleaner or degreaser before disassembling or re-assembling any of your cars suspension components.

Determine Torque Setting

The hub nut for a 2000 Chevrolet Silverado is 155 foot-pounds, or 210 Newton-meters.

Use the Proper Tools

Always use the proper sockets, wrenches and torque wrenches. Ill-fitting sockets will strip bolt heads. Tighten the hub nut with a 35 mm socket. A dab of medium-strength thread locker, such as blue Loctite, will prevent the nut from loosening.

Test Drive

When the hub, brakes and wheels are assembled, check for looseness and excessive play. Test drive the truck and verify that the four-wheel drive and ABS systems work.

Inverted lug nuts are often used in high-speed auto racing. They have a unique design that is very different from a traditional lug nut, and this design fulfills a very specific function when installed.

Identification

Inverted lug nuts are similar to regular lugs nuts except they are concave (curved inward) at the end; traditional acorn lug nuts are convex (curved outward). Additionally, acorn lug nuts have a smooth, rounded tip that forms a 60 degree angle, whereas inverted lug nuts do not.

Uses

These types of lug nuts can be used as a replacement for a vehicles original lugs when they have been damaged or lost. They are usually engineered to the exact specification of the wheels of a particular vehicle and are theore not interchangeable with lugs from other vehicles.

Types

These lug nuts come in most of the designs that are used in racing vehicles. For example, they can be found with heptagonal (seven-sided) heads or mag shank heads. They also come in various sizes for different wheel types.