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301 Posts Member #: 2480 Senior Member Swindon |
5th Oct, 2010 at 04:51:16pm
On the way back from combe the other saturday, my o/s/f wheel decided to try and detatch itself from the car and resulted in an AA tow home! This would answer the mental torque steer i was suffering from! It would appear that when the ally 4pots were fitted and the disc conversion to fit under 10" alloys, no one changed the studs as there are 1" spacers on there. So, the nuts pulled through killing the threads. All the other wheels are fine. My question is do i need to take the discs/hubs off the car to replace the studs? I tapped one of the dead studs out to check its length but am not sure how to get it to locate fully without taking the whole thing out and sticking it in a vice. Can anyone help please. feature=mhum |
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 8215 Posts Member #: 90 Post Whore Somewhere around Swindon |
5th Oct, 2010 at 04:59:31pm
you have to undo the castle nut and remove the drive flange, you will need a vice to change them without damaging anything Edited by wolfie on 5th Oct, 2010. Crystal Sound Audio said:
Why wolfie...you should have your name as Fuckfaceshithead ! "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."-Douglas Adams |
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547 Posts Member #: 2928 Post Whore peterborough |
5th Oct, 2010 at 05:26:12pm
could you not put it through, line it up, find a thick enough spacer and pull it through with the wheel nut? or is that bodging? Jack Jones |
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 9502 Posts Member #: 1023 Post Whore Doncaster, South Yorkshire |
5th Oct, 2010 at 05:51:19pm
i dont think you can get the longer studs in without taking the flange off as wolfie says
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 12307 Posts Member #: 565 Carlos Fandango Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex |
5th Oct, 2010 at 06:01:06pm
I just pull them in with an old wheel nut, and if needed some washers, and then just check the nuts after a few trips round the block
On 28th Aug, 2011 Kean said:
At the risk of being sigged... Joe, do you have a photo of your tool? http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.p...9064&lastpost=1 https://joe1977.imgbb.com/ |
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547 Posts Member #: 2928 Post Whore peterborough |
5th Oct, 2010 at 06:23:48pm
Saying that, Think Brett may be right with an inch spacer it might be a tight squeeze getting it to go through Jack Jones |
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 11046 Posts Member #: 965 Post Whore Preston On The Brook |
5th Oct, 2010 at 07:26:38pm
1" spacers on the front ?! and you wonder why it torque steers? On 26th Oct, 2004 TurboDave16v said:
Is it A-Series only? I think it should be... So when some joey comes on here about how his 16v turbo vauxhall is great compared to ours, he can be given the 'bird'... On 26th Oct, 2004 Tom Fenton said:
Yep I agree with TD........ |
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9502 Posts Member #: 1023 Post Whore Doncaster, South Yorkshire |
5th Oct, 2010 at 07:38:00pm
On 5th Oct, 2010 just_jack said:
Saying that, Think Brett may be right with an inch spacer it might be a tight squeeze getting it to go through it shouldnt have anything to do with the spacers, i just remember i had to take mine of to fit them, i snapped a stud undoing them once, and changed the lot for piece of mind, i dont think i put especially long studs in there either, Yes i moved to the darkside |
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2497 Posts Member #: 1954 Post Whore Luton Bedfordshire |
6th Oct, 2010 at 10:13:04am
You will have to take the drive flange off as there is not enougth of an angle to get the loger studs in or for that matter the whole original studs out. Been down this road before.
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2497 Posts Member #: 1954 Post Whore Luton Bedfordshire |
6th Oct, 2010 at 10:18:17am
Also if your running with an inch spacer are you not better of fitting wheel adaptors? If your offset is still around 50/50 I dont see an issue with 1" spacers but if there is no support between the drive flange and the knave face of the wheel you are putting torsional loads into the equation and I dont think your studs will like that. Own the day
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