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Re: nuts for Spitfire wire wheel adapters - link

To: ZoboHerald@aol.com, spitfires@autox.team.net,
Subject: Re: nuts for Spitfire wire wheel adapters - link
From: M D Nugent <carcentric@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 21:22:56 -0700 (PDT)
Here's Jeff's account:
>  http://www.totallytriumph.net/spitfire/hard_lesson.shtml#studs

Looks like the nuts he eventually used (from Spitbits) were NOT beveled
on both ends, but they are different than the VB ones.

I'd still recommend upgrading to 7/16" studs.

MDN


--- ZoboHerald@aol.com wrote:

> Feel free to reply only to me unless others voice a similar desire to
>  
> know....
>  
> Can anyone provide me with reasonably accurate dimensions, such as
> height,  
> and whether they are conical/beveled/whatever on one or both sides,
> for the 
> nuts  holding the wire wheel adapters to the hubs on a Spitfire/GT6?
>  
> Thanks in advance! I've encountered a couple cars in the last year or
> so  
> where these nuts looked a little too much like regular wheel nuts!?  
> 
> --Andy   Mace
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