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RE: Wheel Spacers

To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Wheel Spacers
From: "Rob Weinstock" <weinstro@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:27:05 GMT
>Yes.  Cheaper than the collateral damage potential of shearing off wheel
>studs. Hubcentric spacers reduce the shearing load to two directions; drive
>and braking.  Spacers that use the studs to position the wheel al well
>wobble around and apply forces in all directions which accelerates getting
>fatique fractures.

The wheels in my car appear to be located by the lug nuts. Is the above 
statement still true if I were to use spacers that were not specifically hub 
centric?

Thanks,

Rob Weinstock
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