Metric Lugs?

[Centrevillemx]

I thought XJ's were made in the USA? Then why the hell does my '90 pioneer 4wd have 14mm metric lugs? Did dana skimp on this?

[Eagle]

It doesn't, unless someone changed them. All XJs right up to 2001 have 1/2" x 20 lugs.

[Centrevillemx]

What Wrench Size Though?

[Georgia Mike]

Should be 3/4" unless the silly little chrome caps came off the stock lug nuts,then it would be a 19mm IIRC

[Eagle]

Stock lug NUTS (not "lugs" -- technically, lugs were bolts with tapered seats that screwed into the hubs to hold the wheels on. That's the way it was done up until the mid- to late 50s but most of you grasshoppers probably never saw a car with genuine "lugs") take a 3/4" socket. Most after-market lug nuts in 1/2 x 20 use a 13/16 socket.

The stock lug nuts, as Mike alluded to, have a very thin stainless steel cap crimped on over an open core. If the cap has fallen off, a 19mm socket is just a teensie bit smaller and may work if the 3/4" doesn't.

[Georgia Mike]

Hey Eagle,I'm not too old to remember that the old VW's used lug bolts instead of lug nuts :laugh: They were that way up until the demise of the American version of the original Beetle. I guess the Germans didn't like letting go of some ways of doing things,eh? :D

[Rob Mayercik]

Originally posted by Georgia Mike
Hey Eagle,I'm not too old to remember that the old VW's used lug bolts instead of lug nuts :laugh: They were that way up until the demise of the American version of the original Beetle. I guess the Germans didn't like letting go of some ways of doing things,eh? :D

VW still does it this way -- my 02 Jetta has lugs, as did my dad's long-passed 84 rabbit.

As far as metric goes, I know what you mean - I picked up a small set of metric combo wrenches over the weekend - had to change the battery out in the XJ, and discovered that while the terminal calmps were 1/2", I needed what appeared to be a 13mm for the battery hold-down bar. I borrowed a 14 from my father, and it worked (though being a touch large). Won't get caught unprepared again (until the next time :D ).

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[andyr354]

all of my tin covers are gone, got sick of them sticking in the socket. 18mm works perfect on mine that way.