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Wolf wheels fit series??
Sooty:
--- Quote from: "RedlineMike" --- spun them in a lathe & took 1mm of each nut,problem cured
--- End quote ---
I very rarely comment on this sort of thread but could not believe what I was reading :shock:
There is a lot of engineering calculations and metal science goes into deciding the size and number of wheel nuts used on motor vehicles and the reason the scrutineers are failing your motor is because it is UNSAFE.
There is only one thing worse than wheel nuts (and studs) that are the wrong size and that is the real nut that will do things to CON the scrutineers onto allowing an UNSAFE vehicle into an event.
I would not like to get in the way of an out of control Land Rover wheel travelling at 50 mph.
USE THE CORRECT NUTS AND STUDS OR DON'T USE THE WHEELS.
You could kill yourself or worse an innocent marshal or spectator.
{sooty gets down off his soap box}
Sorry, I thought a long time about posting this but I am now 50 years old and have done my fair share of motor sport and seen first hand the damage a flying wheel can do.
Please take no offence by this Mike but giving advice like that is not a good idea :wink:
MOTORSPORT_SAFETY:
--- Quote from: "Sooty" ---
--- Quote from: "RedlineMike" --- spun them in a lathe & took 1mm of each nut,problem cured
--- End quote ---
I very rarely comment on this sort of thread but could not believe what I was reading :shock:
There is a lot of engineering calculations and metal science goes into deciding the size and number of wheel nuts used on motor vehicles and the reason the scrutineers are failing your motor is because it is UNSAFE.
There is only one thing worse than wheel nuts (and studs) that are the wrong size and that is the real nut that will do things to CON the scrutineers onto allowing an UNSAFE vehicle into an event.
I would not like to get in the way of an out of control Land Rover wheel travelling at 50 mph.
USE THE CORRECT NUTS AND STUDS OR DON'T USE THE WHEELS.
You could kill yourself or worse an innocent marshal or spectator.
{sooty gets down off his soap box}
Sorry, I thought a long time about posting this but I am now 50 years old and have done my fair share of motor sport and seen first hand the damage a flying wheel can do.
Please take no offence by this Mike but giving advice like that is not a good idea :wink:
--- End quote ---
I didnt think of this side of things considering what I do at weekends and that I run a response unit for events motorsport or not, and I agree I would not want to argue with any wheel traveling at any speed let alone a landy one.
The studs should be easy enough to sort out worse case is having to get some machined up but at least he would have a comeback on someone if they failed.
All the best and I hope you manage to sort it out and dont forget to let us all know how you go about it.
Paul
ian_s:
i'm wondering why the studs arent long enough
generally that means the wheel isnt sitting fully home on the hub, like something is stopping it. either that, or the centre plate on them wheels is thicker than a standard series rim
Ian
philbert:
yep the wolf wheel is thicker than the standard series wheel as i have just found.
now to find someone that will supply longer studs!
p.s. 130 wheel studs are longer but they are £9 odds EACH!
Xtremeteam:
--- Quote from: "philbert" ---yep the wolf wheel is thicker than the standard series wheel as i have just found.
now to find someone that will supply longer studs!
p.s. 130 wheel studs are longer but they are £9 odds EACH!
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YUP & to fit them to the racer woulda ment having to buy either 4 new hubs to take them or change the axles,
sooty:fair point in what you say BUT at the end of the day having been shown the suitlbe sums regarding all the "science" that goes into said calculations loosing the 1mm didnt make any odds, :roll: in my post i stated what i "did" instead of spending £200 on studs,would you?
Dont think so,
& at no point in my post did i say do this ........,
just stated what i did!
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