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The once or twice when I put two washers on the inside of the truck, the Nylock nut did not seem to be engaging and I immediately switched back.
Yeah, I am kind of waiting for a wheel to fall off. 
I did 3 washers on the inside of an indy 144 with 52mm spitfires; a wheel did fall off during a flat ground trick. Went down to 2 where the axel is perfectly flush to the nut and had no issues since. A side effect of the washers is also that when the board hits on the side I don't mush up the axel threads.
The main thing with all the washer additions is having nuts that still have decent nyloc on them.
That is not to say always have a bag of spare nuts, but depending on how often you change things out, if the nut is starting to get finger tight where you like it, I would be switching it out for a new one, regardless of where the nut sits on the axle.
Like many other things, you can buy a box of axle nuts (along with kingpin and deck bolt nuts) for very little from hardware wholesale suppliers and it will save any issues - directly or on ebay.
More often than not I have three washers on the inside only - don't need any on the outside as the nut pretty much has its own built in washer nowdays, but other people I know are still so used to having a washer on the outside so I would not try to change anyone's mind there.
On some trucks the axle is offset so sometimes I need four on one side and three on the other or something similar. Yes OCD kicks in there too, so I often just run the same number of whatever will fit comfortably on both sides.
As to washers, you can get different width washers too, some brands having thicker ones, some having thinner ones. The bulk buy I got from ebay most recently were a lot thinner than the standard ones, which at first I didn't like but now I find that it is easier to mix and match to make it exactly how far out I need them - all that depending on the brand of truck, the state of the axle and also the brand of bearings, of which some sit wider and some are way more narrow on the axle.
Running spacers between bearings usually means one less washer on too, but that is another story entirely.
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I prefer my wheels flush or just under the deck line, so usually with bigger wheels they sit well on 149s on 8.5 decks, or slightly smaller wheels on 149s on 8.38 size boards, all with three washers on the insides, but I still have maximum grind space in width of truck with the nuts on flush and a touch of wiggle room in the bearings and no nuts falling off for these boards.
Been doing that for a long time, and really liking it, but in experimenting, going up to 159s without inside washers just feels weird, in the same way that riding 144s with maximum washers also feels weird, so those few mm really make such a big difference when muscle memory is so ingrained.
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