It's possible. When I converted to wires I cut the studs so the wire would
fit. Easier than changing them.
Larry Miller
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Chamberlain <bobchamb@southwind.net>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: 12 May, 1999 2:27 AM
Subject: A thought
> I was looking at some old wire wheels I had and noticed that some had
> small, half-moon indentations on the brake side of the hub. At first, I
> thought these were some kind of tooling mark, but the closer I looked , I
> could see they seemed to line up with the studs.Then it came to
me,---when
> people convert to wire wheels they do not change the studs. There are two
> different part numbers for the studs,-------one for wire wheel and one for
> solid wheels. The wire ones are shorter. Could it be that when converting
> to wires, the wheel is not going on all the way but riding on the ends of
> the longer studs? If this is the case, the wheel is not really fully on to
> the splined hub. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
>
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