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Vehicle & Technical => Series Land Rovers => Topic started by: barny on April 25, 2006, 22:52:48

Title: Wheel studs
Post by: barny on April 25, 2006, 22:52:48

Was a bit of a plonker at Great Brickhill on sunday, hadnt quite tightend the wheel nuts correctly and one of the wheels decided to fall off !

Have [!Expletive Deleted!] some studs and manage to thread some on the hub/flange. I've been told its possible to replace them with series 3 type ones, does any one know whats envolved in doing the conversion ?

Title: Wheel studs
Post by: dave_2A_2.25Turbo on April 26, 2006, 01:10:54

IRC you have to drill the holes slightly larger, then you can pull the new studs in with a wheel nut.  If you do them all its 20 studs & 20 nuts to buy though.

There is a threadabout it somewhere.

Title: Wheel studs
Post by: barny on April 26, 2006, 19:05:10

£16 for the lot, didnt think that was too bad ! I'll have a quick looki one night this week and take some photos

Title: Wheel studs
Post by: barny on April 27, 2006, 17:14:11

Studs and nuts came today, just need  to find a 15-16mm drill bit and a drill capable of holding/turning it :oops:  !

Title: Wheel studs
Post by: Miniman on April 27, 2006, 18:28:29

This do ya mate.....

Title: Wheel studs
Post by: Canada Al on April 28, 2006, 23:10:28

Just spat me beer all over the screen  :D
Maybe you could try one of them Dremel thingys .

Title: Wheel studs
Post by: barny on April 30, 2006, 17:46:56

:D  :D  :D  :D  :D

Title: Wheel studs
Post by: thumbs on May 01, 2006, 20:00:48

get a drill thats been reduced to half inch on the shank, will fit std drill then

Title: Wheel studs
Post by: barny on May 03, 2006, 22:53:40

Had quite a lot of bother with the nsr hub, but finally got it cracked. Ran out of time at the shed so stripped the front hubs off and took them home. Just been playing in the garage with all the good tools and blized 1 hub completly and half way through the other!

Found to my dismay that the nsf hub bearing is absolutly shot to boll0cks, condsidering the bearings are brand new and some 4 years old (its done less than 200 in that time !) i'm a bit [!Expletive Deleted!] that one of them is distroyed.

Oh well never mind !

Title: Wheel studs
Post by: barny on May 15, 2006, 22:12:26

After refitting the front hub it was decided that the studs didn poke through enough. so took them of again and drilled the back of the hub out to allow the head of the stud to be recessed into the newly drilled hole. A 19mm drill bit was used for this. Not the niceset or easiest of jobs to do, had to also drill out the drums as the stud wouldn't fit through.

So to recap.

All hubs need drilled STRAIGHT with a pillar drill out to 16mm.
The hubs need to have a recess drilled into the rear to allow the studs wider head to sit flush with the hub.
The drums need drilling to 17.5mm to allow stud clearance
Recommend a pillar drill and brand new drill bits. The drums where very hard and took time to drill. The pillar will maintan accuracy drilling.

This is all applicable to a 1958 series 2 that has threaded wheel studs. We have found on the osr wheel it had a splined hub, sadly to small for the series 3 studs so will still need fettling.

Hope this helps anyone going to tackle the job, its not as quite straight forward as was thought !