Not sure anybody answered this but will 15x7's fit without flares
-----Original Message-----
From: datsunmike [mailto:datsunmike@nyc.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 7:42 AM
To: jon_wissler@pngc.com; datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Watanabes revisited
The studs are SAE 7/16ths not 12mm like Zs and 510s. Go to a speed shop and
look in their catalogs for lugnuts. You can also search the web. Just
measure the ID of the lug opening on the wheel and the depth.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: <jon_wissler@pngc.com>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: Watanabes revisited
> Similar issue. I purchased some lug nuts from Les Schwab tire centers to
> address the "stock lug nuts won't work with Panasports" issue. The guy
> seemed Panasport aware, and for $1 a piece gave me some good looking
> chrome "mag wheel" lug nuts that he assured me would fit. So I put them
> on last night, and they seem to go on funky, but they do go on. However,
> as I attempted to tighten the last one, it comes sliding off the stud !!!
> I quickly removed them, fearing I had stripped the studs, which they
> didn't. I then fiddled with them without the wheel on, and they appear to
> thread on, but you can move them around even when they are tightened. This
> can't possibly be right is it? Obviously they are not the correct size,
> perhaps they are metric and the roadster is SAE or vica versa. THEREFORE,
if I want to get the correct lug nuts to fit a 1969 Datsun 2000 that will
> hold 14x7 panasports on the wheel correctly, what do I ask for? What is
> the stud size and thread pattern, etc. Why does everything always have to
> be so $%&*#@! complicated?
>
> P.S. Plus, where could I possibly get Panasport center caps for the same
> vehicle. Thanks everybody in advance.
>
> 69 SRL
> NOWROC
> Troutdale, OR
>
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>
> RoadsterGB@aol.com
> Sent by: owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> 06/07/01 11:06 AM
> Please respond to RoadsterGB
>
>
> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> cc:
> Subject: Watanabes revisited
>
>
> Hi again
>
> It looks like the Watanabes will fit the roadster although I need the
> correct
> wheel nuts (the wheels and nuts were off a 240Z) - Marc S and Dennis
> confirm
> that the nuts are not cheap and from Dennis's own experience no other nuts
>
> will do!! - as an alternative has anyone replaced roadster wheel hub studs
>
> with Z studs??
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob
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