I put 15" ZX wheels on my 68 2L and because the lug nuts were unique to the
wheels (at least I could not find any aftermarket nuts that would fit) I
had to replace the studs AND buy very expensive lug nuts from the Nissan
dealer.
Ray
68 1600
68 2000
At 10:43 AM 07/14/2000 -0700, Marc Sayer wrote:
>Beamonk@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> I have taken out my car with the newly finished zx wheels. With new tires
>> they balanced out very well. I put them on with the 7/16 lugs with double
>> washers. After about 30 or so miles I have not lost a wheel and the lugs
>> remain tight, but the car feels unbalanced and tends to shake. The general
>> consenus is to use the 12mm lugs and z car studs, which I didn't. I
tried the
>> skinniest 12mm stud that my parts guy had, but they were not even close to
>> fitting. Is the zx stud tapered, is it skinny behind the threads or will I
>> have to drill out my rotors to get the bigger studs to fit? Any other idead
>> will be appreciated, I recall a tapered lug and insert wqas suggested, but
>> anyone I have called goes "huh" Thanks.
>> John Brasfield BTW alignment and everything else is good
>
>Sounds to me like the shank of your lug nuts isn't fitting tightly in
>the holes in the ZX wheel and so you are not getting the wheels centered
>on the studs. The ZX wheels use a rather thick shanked nut. Try mounting
>the wheel first with two tapered seat nuts and tightening these by hand
>only (but get them as snug as you can by hand). Then install two shank
>nuts on the other two studs and tighten these with a lung nut wrench.
>Now remove the two tapered seat nuts and install the last two shank nuts
>on the studs you had the tapered seat nuts on and tighten with the
>wrench. Put the wheel back on the ground and torque with torque wrench.
>Repeat for each wheel. The tapered seat nuts will act to center the
>wheel while you install the first set of shank nuts, which will then
>hold the wheel in place while you replace the tapered seat nuts with the
>proper nuts. Dennis at CDM gave me this suggestion for some aftermarket
>wheels I had that had a similar problem.
>
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