Wheel Stud Hub Thread Restorer

[Badger1bear]

What car is it ? If it's only two studs push them out they are probably on a spline, cheaper than thread restoring and peace of mind

 

[123hotchef]

it is a L200 the studs are also in a ali spacer so no biggie to push them out

 

[Badger1bear]

Oh no it gets worse
Please don't tell me it's 30mm spacer

 

[123hotchef]

Oh no it gets worse
Please don't tell me it's 30mm spacer

ha ha hum maybe 35mm why?

 

[Badger1bear]

What size tyres are your running and what is the wheel offset ?
Do you have a picture of this L200 ?
The loading on wheel studs is greatly increased by using wheel spacers, your moving the centre line of the wheel away from the vertical centre line it pivots around I.E. the hub
What brand are these spacers ?

Ally isn't fetching much money at the moment but I know where I would be putting them.

 

[Badger1bear]

Go for wider rims

 

[123hotchef]

its all good, ill post some pics in a moment I have 2!

bulldog hubcentric spacers, I know all about the risks running the spacers the off set is 0, In an ideal world I would run a -32 offset but they didnt clear my calipers hence the 0 offset and spacers. tyre size on one is 285 75 16 the other is 305 70 16

 

[123hotchef]

whre abouts in kent are you mate? do you off road much

 

[123hotchef]

 

[Badger1bear]

I don't get time to use the truck now, its mothballed under a large cover. Just before I stood it up I dropped a brand new dynoed 5.8 Chevy lump in there along with a TH400 box. Work is so busy I don't get much time to work on the truck now

It's not a typo its is actually a 5.8 not a 5.7

 

[Badger1bear]

My wheels are made by a company in Norwich called Fieldens, they 15" high by 16" wide with about 1.5" back space. It was never built to last it was built for fun and believe me it had been all of that. It's been driven from Kent to Northamptonshire and has been raced up the drag strip at Santa Pod and driven home, that's the reason for needing to put in a new engine

 

[123hotchef]

thats it u use them and abuse them something will always break

 

[p0689109]

Funny this talking about chrome wheel nuts. My boy has a Honda CRV and last weekend I had the job of giving it a quick pre MOT inspection to make sure non of the obvious kit is going to cause a failure. Mainly I remove the wheels to physically check the brakes, steering joints, springs, dampers, drive shafts and tyres. Upon removing the wheels I had one of the wheels with a tight thread both going off and on compared to all the other wheels but both the nut and stud looked fine.(5 on each). We decided that as one of the tyres had a slow puncture and was just about on the wear limit with another two not far off it was better to change all 4 to ensure all tyres had the same tread and wear. I took the car to the tyre place and told him about the tightish nut but that particular one was ok. But one on one of the front wheels came undone but was tight and in fact ended up not coming off without levering while turning with the impact driver. Yet all of the nuts went on by hand all the way down to the wheel and then were torqued up when I did the inspection. When it was off I found the end of the stud was chewed up. I got the car back home and just used the dremel to cut the damaged bit off and bought a set of steel locking nuts to replace the lost nut. The studs are quite long to cater for the wider ali wheels and as these are steel wheels the nuts still had enough thread to grip as per required. I did not put the lock nut on that stud though. As I did the wheels one at a time the nuts that came off went back on the same wheel so I did not swop them around. These chrome nuts must just take up when it suits them!

 

[Badger1bear]

Half the fun is rebuilding but we are talking taking things to the extreme on mine and not worrying about cost but I dare say you don't want to be shelling out money if you don't want or need to.
Getting back to your spacers and studs. I would be concerned pushing out steel from ally and then pushing or drawing steel back into ally. I don't know how the ally would stand up to it. These ally spacers are they made from aircraft grade ally or are they made out of a kipper box from yak a saki land ?

 

[123hotchef]

they are rubbish i took a closer look at the threads compared the the standard mitsi nuts and the threads are much better cut and deeper on the oem ones

 

[123hotchef]

Half the fun is rebuilding but we are talking taking things to the extreme on mine and not worrying about cost but I dare say you don't want to be shelling out money if you don't want or need to.
Getting back to your spacers and studs. I would be concerned pushing out steel from ally and then pushing or drawing steel back into ally. I don't know how the ally would stand up to it. These ally spacers are they made from aircraft grade ally or are they made out of a kipper box from yak a saki land ?

one would hope they are aircraft grade but who knows, when I fit the 305s I may take the spacers off anyway

 

[Badger1bear]

they are rubbish i took a closer look at the threads compared the the standard mitsi nuts and the threads are much better cut and deeper on the oem ones

That's exactly right, the threads on the chrome nuts are shallow and are not fit for purpose

 

[Badger1bear]

If you must fit spacers I can recommend Eibach from Germany, they can stand an extreme amount of abuse and loading

 

[123hotchef]

the bulldog ones are good quality they have seen plenty of abuse from me too

 

[wristpin]

Im sure you could devise a way to turn a die. you are only restoring a thread not creating one.

Other option may be a thread file depending on access. I have in the past used a diamond needle file to clean up a thread.

Could also slit up the side of a good nut to create your own die, bit gash but sometimes needs must.

To be fair that kit would probably work fine for a one off.

Also done that to get out of trouble, spread it a little to put it on, lubricate it, then clamped together with "mole" grips and unwound it.