davo Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Should be so simple but ....... Got some new wheels for the mancona on Sunday and was a little shocked when I took the centers of the standard Gte alloys The wheel nuts were the type normally found on steel wheels,plus the studs didn't even come through the the wheel nut. Looked on my hatch and it had the wheel nuts with covered ends Strange thing is the mancona seems to be a straight original car(well until I got it!)where as the hatch has had lots of owners and loads of jobs done to it. So what nuts should I have on my new alloys ? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 (edited) If the nuts don't get their full depth on the studs, I would say that the studs are to short, I was speaking to Emy, from West Wales yesterday and he has the same problem so it seems, I'd get in touch with him if I were you, cos I think he said that he had a way to fix it. Edited September 26, 2013 by Julian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davo Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 Tonight I checked my 400 project and that's a Gte coupe. That has these short studs on it too! Is this normal ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upk Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 One explanation may be that it was fitted sleeved nuts like with revolutions! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Revolution-Sleeve-wheel-Nuts-Mk1-Escort-etc-7-16-UNF-/260440913541?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item3ca37cf685 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rutts Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 yes you have steel wheel nuts the cone on alloy ones is different. get alloy nuts ASAP but they do not have the depth either just safer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davo Posted September 28, 2013 Author Share Posted September 28, 2013 Yes rutts that what I thought It's just when I went to the project Gte stored in the barn and saw that had them too The only one with the correct nuts was your old hatch( think it was yours) d60xgx !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Abbott Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I've always thought Manta studs to be too short, change them out for +25mm escort ones ( 12x1.5 ) I had a wheel come off the mancona causing sh~t loads of damage to the arch because of short studs. At £10 a hub just put longer ones in 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rutts Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 yes got them especially for D60 XDX don't like wrong nuts, I pointed it out to dan on his GTE also when we did some work on it and we changed them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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