Vid I made for AM, should help those who dont have hub face recesses in their wheels.
YouTube - Installing 1" wheel spacers and new wheels
YouTube - Installing 1" wheel spacers and new wheels
Didn't feel like sanding them.good job...but those spacer sure were nasty looking
I just used the ones that came with the dremel, didn't have much of a selection. I would have used my angle grinder, but it's loud as hell on hardened steel, and im pretty sure my neighbors wouldn't be too happy about that.made me a little nervous but really was no bid deal...i cut mine with the lug nuts on the studs to make sure that the threads would clean up when i took them back off. i used a slightly larger cutoff wheel too, im not that patient.
If you notice, youtube mutes new videos with real copywritten music. And since i have narration on it, that would make the video a bit useless. So i have to put independantly made music on. It sucks, i had Nirvana's Lake of Fire on a compilation and they made it a slient videoPretty good video dude. Not much on the music but altogether a well put together vid.
I know, they are owned by too large of a cooperation which face too much liability from little crap like this. I wish all car related videos were transferred to streetfire.net - but most traffic is on YT so i host there.Ha yea i did notice that. It does suck. Youtube is starting to tick me off.
It's a secret, Nate:Zip2: The after with the new wheels isn't a good comparison for the viewers, im going to a 18x10 that needs the spacer just to fit right because it's a S197 wheel. So using the 18x9's for B&A is a better refrence.Good video Chris!!!!!!Im surprised you didn't show the before and after with the new wheels.
My little cutting discs would break about every 30 seconds - lol. It never even changed color, i think im good. The studs still went past where the shallow lugs seated to, and those are H&R so it's not like it's poor quality. I feel safe with it. I just though it was funny AM is talking about needlessly cutting off parts of the studs, they sell a 1" spacer and dont even tell customers they might need to do this to use it.Cutting lugs is scary in itself. If you get the metal too hot you can actually crystalize the metal and make them more brittle. That + spacer can lead to a bad situation.
If you are gonna cut your lugs, go slow and skip around from lug to lug allowing them to cool periodically. Don't use a grinder and get them cherry red.
MM doesn't sell spacers with new studs like that. What they do sell is a 1/4" spacer that's flat (i have a pair) and they state as long as after the spacer there is 6+ threads it's safe. So logic would tell us we need that many for secure lug torquing. So once you cut part of the stud off (most of it is the no threaded stub end, less threads are taken off than a 1/4" spacer would take off) you count how many threads you have left. It's plenty.I don't think they want to tell people to cut their studs anyway. Lots of legal ramifications can some from that.
Does MM say to cut down the studs?
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