Posted By : Mark Palmer, 24-Jul-2006, 11:39pm

Does anyone know where I can buy some wheel nut bolts? My car used to have wire wheels, which meant that the bolts were cut short by the last owner, to accomodate them. This has left them too short for my new alloys!

By the way, talking about extended bolts, I needed some today to accomodate a 3/4" alloy diff spacer I'd put on. Several suppliers were out of stock, and I was looking at a wait of a couple of weeks. Instead, I used the 3/8th UNF bolts from a spare gt6 head (spit/her are no good, since they are even shorter) - worked a treat, and allowed me to complete my task for the day!

Cheers,

Mark.

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Posted By : Vin Poonwassie, 25-Jul-2006, 01:09am

Hi Mark,
your better off putting in cortina/sierra studs, they are thicker and go into the original triumph holes (need to chamfer the inner edge of the head to 45 degrees to make it's sillouette more like a screw head than a cheese head - if you see what I mean?). Available from motor factors, they'll do various lengths of M12

extract from a quick web search ( http://www.speedshack.co.uk/Wheelnuts.htm )

<< Metric M12x1.5 (e.g. Later Ford - Mk2 Escort, Mk3/4/5 Cortina etc), M12x1.25 (e.g. for Subaru, Peugeot and many Japanese vehicles) >>

front hubs are easy just take them off, rears are easy on the car if your non-rotoflex (as there are holes in the appropriate place to pass the longer studs through from the back).

if rotoflex, I just pulled the outer hub bit off to do it (for rear clearance).

It's a very good upgrade,

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