How crucial is it to run hubcentric wheels on a Liberty? Most aftermarket steel wheels are not hubcentric.

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2005 Liberty Sport CRD

GDE HOT Tune
GDE TCM
EH Mod
Euro T.C.
3" straight exhaust w/cat delete
Cone air filter
Ome lift springs
Bilstein shocks & struts

I believe all KJ's have lug centric wheels. You can tell by the acorn style lug nuts designed to force the wheel to center around the lug.

Hub centric means that the wheel is a tight fit around the hub so that it centers the wheel. In hub centric the lugs just hold it to the hub and ussually are flat bottomed nuts.

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2005 CRD "Ol' Blue"
Red Ryder carbine-action, two hundred shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time.
My build page- RL Komodo Rear and TJM Front Bumper, armored, lifted, JBA Steel D30, 4.10s and ARB air lockers.

All OE wheels are hub centric to the specific vehicle they are designed for.With so many different center bores but same bolt patterns it would be a nightmare for aftermarket wheel companies to have hub centric wheels for every make/model.Unless your dersert running with jumps lug centric is just fine besides except for wheel spacers as they must be hub centric or will fail.The majority of the force keeping your wheels on is the torque appled to the lugnuts forcing it against the hub surface,just keep your lugnuts properly torqued and you'll be fine.I've ran lug centric wheels on my KJ for 8 years with zero issues and some heavy wheeling without issues.

So with lug-centric steel wheels (cragar, black rock, etc.)...what is the proper type of lug nut to use? The stock acorn style nuts? Or should flat nuts be used?

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2005 Stone White KJ Limited CRD 4x4
Off-Road Pkg
Trac-Lok
Emu 790s/948s
Skyjacker H7088s rear/Bilsteins front
15x7 Black Rock Lobos/31x10.50 Firestones
GDE HOT Tune + TCM Tune
Euro TC
CB radio
Thrush Turbo muffler
AEM DryFlow filter

I would think the stock ones would work, unless they are too shiny.

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Mike Smith
06 KJ Sport - PA - ONSFARI

OME 926/948 w/ OME Shocks, 3/8 Boiler, 1" LTT, a bit of Clevis lift
MOPAR Skids, Custom trans skid
Valley Roof Basket with Extension (when required), Homemade fence post crossbars with Thule system to compliment
Mastercraft A\T Something or another...

Check with the manufacturer or the place you buy the wheels from for the correct lug nuts. Might be on the mfgs website.

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2005 CRD "Ol' Blue"
Red Ryder carbine-action, two hundred shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time.
My build page- RL Komodo Rear and TJM Front Bumper, armored, lifted, JBA Steel D30, 4.10s and ARB air lockers.

Use what the wheel requires,which in most case for KJ's is the OE style lugnut.