Help!!! wheel spacers and lug studs

lightblade

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• Nov 25, 2005

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well so im driving home from va beach after having turkey with the in-laws, then bam this god awful racheting noise comes from no where, so i pull over and cant find anything visibley wrong(dark out)and im a few miles from home so i take her home and then this morning i find this:
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sooo how can i fix this?? can i get a new stud welded on, or do have to replace crap? do i need a better wheel spacer? i have the spacers because otherwise the front tires rub the coilovers. any advice or help greatly appreciated!!!

 

DogVomit

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• Nov 25, 2005

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You have to remove your rotor and pound out the old stud. I would do all five if it were me. If one has been stressed due to the offset balance of the spacer, they may all have the same stress that you can't see.

I don't like spacers worth a crap. Too dangerous for me.

 

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b1ackfang

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• Nov 25, 2005

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Yeah you will have to take the caliper/rotor off and have a new one(I also recommend 5 new ones) put in. I run normal studs, but run the H&R spacers that have new studs built into the spacers. less stress on the long studs. I only run them with my 15x3.5 pro Stars though.

 

tomustang

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• Nov 26, 2005

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's upgrade the lugs

Also get rid of those spacers, there's too much room between the lugs. Look for some tighter fitting holes for the lugs.

Good example:

 

lightblade

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Nov 26, 2005

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• Nov 26, 2005

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ok looks like i'll be getting moroso studs, and mm wheelspacers

 

trinity_gt

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• Nov 26, 2005

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Whatever spacers you get must be hub-centric. The lug studs are not designed to take shearing forces.

 

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2000BLKGT

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Nov 26, 2005

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• Nov 26, 2005

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if you go to the maximum motorsport site, they recommend running longer ARP studs to compensate for the extra space taken by the drop-in spacer

that's what we did on mine

I've got 1" hubcentrics on the rear...but that's too much for the fronts...and we needed just under 1/2" to clear my front brakes...so running the longer studs seemed like a good plan

 

lightblade

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the moroso studs are a bit longer, besides im going with 1/4 inch spacers that fit snug on the studs