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Old 05-10-2008, 01:00 AM
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Default VIDEO...Greg Weld fronts? Fitment?

So is something wrong here or is there a special lugnut?...I may purchase a set, anyone else have any issues?...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzD_n3ryAOY&NR=1
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shank style
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Originally Posted by bigsticksupra
shank style
Yea thats what I thought. Thats the only thing causing that play right? Next Q is...will any shank lugnut work? Has that been verified yet? They "say" you need the new Greg Weld shank lugnuts, but I dont see the difference.
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Originally Posted by LS1Silverado05
Yea thats what I thought. Thats the only thing causing that play right? Next Q is...will any shank lugnut work? Has that been verified yet? They "say" you need the new Greg Weld shank lugnuts, but I dont see the difference.

My WELD lug nuts would not work, because to fit they chevy bolt pattern you have to use their offset washers, that only come with their lugs. So therefore, yes you do have to use the Greg Weld Lugs, and offset washers.
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Damn...that's like a step backwards to the old "UNI-LUG" days...20 years ago.
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Originally Posted by rel3rd
Damn...that's like a step backwards to the old "UNI-LUG" days...20 years ago.
Pretty much. The Greg Welds are a uni-lug wheel. They have one wheel that fits GM/Ford/Mopar.
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Is there only ONE kind of offset washer size? Damn you would think by now it would be easier than offset washers and other BS.
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its prolly just a way for them to make them cheap by not having to make a ton of different bolt patterns
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That's fine & dandy, but the older crowd will surely remember (think Cragar SS or Keystone Classics) that we all know at least one person who's wheel fell off, or at least came loose while driving, due to that inferior design. Which was probably the reason most everyone stopped making them a long time ago. They required "special" lugnuts too...

Hopefully, that's not the case, as the wheels LOOK GREAT.




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