Wheel Nuts

[davo]

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

[Julian]

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

[davo]

Tonight I checked my 400 project and that's a Gte coupe. That has these short studs on it too!

Is this normal ?

[upk]

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

[rutts]

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.

[davo]

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 !!!

[Kevin Abbott]

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

[rutts]

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.