black lugnuts-powder coated or black crome

**tomthbomb** · 06-24-2007, 09:07 PM

The last little bit of chrome on my Jeep are the lug nuts. They gotta go. Where can I get some black ones?
I am having the headlight rings powder coated and just bought new black door handles.
There is nothing I can do about the Warn hubs.

Mr.Crowley · 06-24-2007, 11:53 PM

the problem I see with powdercoating the lugnuts are two things
1 being the pc is fiarly thick a standard lug wrench wont fit..Probably will have to use a metric six sided socket to fit correctly
2 it will chip very easily in that application..

I would look into black oxide for this..there are small kits you can buy from eastwood to do nuts,bolts small parts...
http://www.clevelandblackoxide.com/
http://www.eastwoodco.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=12225&itemType=PRODUCT&iProd uctID=12225

tenacstud · 06-25-2007, 12:15 AM

Yeah I had actually found black lug nuts a few years ago for my "no chromed" TJ. They were made by a company called Gorilla lug nuts, you could probably google it. I remember at first I was very careful putting them on and taking them off. I would put a cloth over them then the lug wrench or impact wrench. After a while I got lazy and just used the wrench, they did scratch but they still looked pretty good.

**tomthbomb** · 06-25-2007, 07:26 AM

Thanks guys. I'll look at both.