>I spent half a day removing a damaged stud from the rear hub of my 3A. It got
>much easier once I figured out that it was threaded into the hub. Has anyone
>installed a new stud? It looks like the original was threaded in to the hub
>then peened over on the back with a 3 million ton press. I was thinking of
>accomplishing the same thing with a gob of weld from the mig on the back of
>the hub
>
>Questions:
>
>Will the heat from the mig warp the hub?
>Will the gob of weld cause wheel imbalance?
>Is there an alternate type of stud that is just pressed in from the back of
>the hub?
We used TR4 front studs pressed in from the back of the hub on a TR4 used for
racing. I was always a bit dubious about threaded studs...
We planned to machine the back of the hub flat to take the studs but the faces
proved smooth enough already
Nick Froome
http://www.bolide.co.uk
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