Hi Scott,
Here's the differences:
Wire wheel studs are about 9mm shorter.
The nuts are tapered on both ends. Both of these because they have to
fit behind the wire wheel.
If you shorten the studs enough to fit wire wheels then when you put
your steel wheels back on, the studs will only go up half the steel
wheel nut.
My solution to the problem was to make aluminum spacers to make up the
difference when I wanted to run wires.
If my web site was up, I could show you the pics and dimensions of the
spacers.
Cheers,
Mike Thompson
59 TR3
71 Land Rover Series 2A
76 Midget
On Tuesday, June 4, 2002, at 07:59 AM, Scott Tilton wrote:
> On the subject of wire wheels on TRs. . .
>
> I've always wondered about the studs and nuts that hold the splined hub
> extensions for wire wheels on the car.
>
> Why is it that the wire wheel studs are unsuitable for mounting up disc
> wheels?
>
> I know it looks pretty scary . . . having those big fat TR lug nuts on
> there
> without any stud sticking out the middle of them . . . but do they
> really
> engage fewer threads on the stud than do the nuts that hold the splined
> adapters on?
>
> If so . . why?
>
> Do these wire wheel nuts have a different taper to them than the normal
> lug
> nuts? Is the disc wheel "thicker" than the splined extension and so
> doesn't
> allow the lug nut to be screwed down as far.
>
> Curious minds want to know.
>
>
> Scott Tilton
> 1970 TR6 running better today (so far) in Leeburg, VA
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