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Need Longer Rear Wheel Studs Urgently
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:03 am
by junglejustice
Can anyone point me to a good source for a wide variety of wheel studs? I urgently need longer stock rear-sized studs, but with about 7mm more thread for a Mlano/75...
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:23 pm
by Mats
Look at the imperial thread section (is there anything else?) at your friendly American muscle car dealer. Worked for me...
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:26 pm
by junglejustice
Come again Mats?
Wheel studs
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 4:52 am
by Reale
I am not sure this is helpful, but I found some ARP wheelstuds that I was able to put on the rear hubs. They are plenty long, and are rated to 190K psi tensile strength. They were cheap and you can get them readily from multiple sources, too. However, to make them go on you have to overdrill the OE holes in the hub slightly. I have been using them since May of 2003 with no issues.
They are 7/16-20 thread size, and you use acorn-style lugnuts with them.
The rear ones I used are ARP part # 100-7702.
They are for Gm cars, with an underhead length of 3.2"
The knurl diameter is .580, and I used a 9/16" drill to open up the holes.
If anybody cares, I did this on the front, too, with #100-7701. You use a 31/64" drill bit. Drill the hole from the INSIDE OUT. I put a little loctite on the knurl before I pressed it in. Haven't had issues on the front, either.
If you look at the ARP catalog, you'll see that there are M12 x 1.5 studs too. However, when I did the measurements, they would not give me enough length, and the knurls are a little short.
-Al