Twisting studs on the street??

[Novelli]

We had the same problem on the green chevelle. It broke 1 stud and bent the rest of them. I replaced the studs, Reemed the lug holes on the wheels to accept "drag style" shanked lug nuts that go through the wheel -.030 away from bottoming out. I had a set of Hub Centric rings machined so the wheel is now supported on the axle flange and not the wheels studs. Most of these fancy aftermarket wheels use generic tolerances and tappered face lug nuts. Thats not a good combo. After this incident there will never be another car that leaves our shop without Hub Centric rings and and full shanked lugs.

These are the guys who machined the Hub centric rings

http://www.motorsport-tech.com/hub_rings.html

I gave them the specs and had them in a week.The price was really good. Its alot cheaper than replacing a 1/4 panel.

[monza]

Don't know the best route you should go about fixing it, but congrats on twisting the Strange grade 8's!

[phillym5]

Originally Posted by Novelli

We had the same problem on the green chevelle. It broke 1 stud and bent the rest of them. I replaced the studs, Reemed the lug holes on the wheels to accept "drag style" shanked lug nuts that go through the wheel -.030 away from bottoming out. I had a set of Hub Centric rings machined so the wheel is now supported on the axle flange and not the wheels studs. Most of these fancy aftermarket wheels use generic tolerances and tappered face lug nuts. Thats not a good combo. After this incident there will never be another car that leaves our shop without Hub Centric rings and and full shanked lugs.

These are the guys who machined the Hub centric rings

http://www.motorsport-tech.com/hub_rings.html

I gave them the specs and had them in a week.The price was really good. Its alot cheaper than replacing a 1/4 panel.

Awesome!! thanks for that link. That is what i need. My lugs are NOT tapered... but the rim does sit on them (so to speak.. the lug has a built on sleeve). The hub centric rings is a fabulous idea.

[Vegas69]

Non tapered lugs would sure exlpain your problem Josh.

[phillym5]

My rear lugs look like this without the washers they show in the photo.

[CamaroAJ]

unless i missed it i didn't see anywhere that says what your lugnut torque was or if the lugnuts were loose when taking the wheels off. with the half inch studs they should be torqued to 120 ft lbs. not 100 like normal studs. seen this on a few cars before and it was just under torqued wheels

[phillym5]

Originally Posted by CamaroAJ

unless i missed it i didn't see anywhere that says what your lugnut torque was or if the lugnuts were loose when taking the wheels off. with the half inch studs they should be torqued to 120 ft lbs. not 100 like normal studs. seen this on a few cars before and it was just under torqued wheels

Hmmm... We usually torque them 100-110 with aluminum wheels. They were tight when the came off.

[Vegas69]

I've never heard of that much torque. I only torque mine to 85.