Wheel Stud Conversions

[Eric Sanborn]

Kneale Brownson wrote:

>Jeeze, $15.  I just bought a long bolt at a hardware store, cut off the
>head and used a hacksaw to put a screwdriver slot in the end for easy
>removal.  I bet I have $2 into it at most, including the gas to drive to
>the hardware.
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Wow I would love to have a hardware store like that near me.  Ours have 
very few metric fasteners.  The ones they do have are super expensive.  
I looked at Lowes yesterday.  They wanted $1.60 for a bag of two M6x20 
bolts. 


I did a lot of research a while back on putting studs in my 4k.  I guess 
wheel hanger bolts would be cheaper as you could use a shanked bolt, but 
M14 fully threaded in sufficent length were pretty expensive.  I think 
the best I found was around $1 each if I bought 100 of them.  Then of 
course you still had to find resonably priced nuts.

I converted my GTI to wheel studs a few years ago.  I just used fully 
threaded bolts and  ran them in from the back side and fixed them with 
270 loctite.  For the nuts I used Honda parts since they had the same 
shape seat and the dealer gave me a pretty good deal.  It is so 
wonderful compared to the wheel bolts.

-- 
Eric Sanborn
'85 4ktq

http://sofadog.net/4ktq/