Or make a shoulder 'washer' that fits the shoulder on one side and the
taper on the other. An hour with a piece of steel rod and a lathe should
make that solution. Two hours and you could crank them out on
demand...Like as you loose them. :-}
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Bill Babcock wrote:
>
> Unless you taper the mouth of the stud hole, the contact between the
> tapered nut and the wheel will be very small. It will probably work loose
> a few times until wear and pressure makes you some machine shop-free
> tapered throats.
>
> It's not elegant, but it would work--it's the kind of thing I'd do at the
> track when I didn't have a choice and then would never change for a more
> elegant solution. With a long winter staring at me, I'd either get
> shouldered nuts that fit (call a big wheel distributor, you'd be amazed at
> what they've got), modify the wheels to fit shouldered nuts you have, or
> have a matching taper cut into the throat of the holes.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Kahler [mailto:Brad.Kahler@141.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 5:47 AM
> To: fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: wheel studs & wheel stud hole diameters
>
> Ok, heres the situation. On Susans Spitfire we're switching from
> some heavy aluminum alloy wheels that use the shoulder lug nuts to
> Minilite replicas. The Minilites were originally sold to fit a
> GT6. I'm not sure what the wheel stud size was for a GT6 but the
> Spitfires were 3/8x24 thread size. However, her Spitfire has been
> upgraded to 7/16" wheel studs. The stud hole in the Minilite
> appears to be 1/2" or slightly larger in diameter. Our choices
> are to bore out the Minilites large enough to use shoulder type
> lug nuts, this is NOT my prefered choice or what I would like to
> do is just use tapered lug nuts and basically center the wheel
> over the stud via the taper of the nut mating to the taper on the
> wheel.
>
> My question is, if the hole in the wheel is larger than the wheel
> stud is this a problem when using the tapered type lug nuts? In
> other words, does it matter if the sides of the studs don't make
> contact with wheel itself?
>
> Hope this makes sense....!!!
>
> TIA
>
> Brad
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