Wheel machining help please.
Wheel machining help please. Hello. I just built a 9" for my car and ordered the 5/8 wheel stud package thinking I would get the fully threaded studs and I could use a normal 60° seat lugnut. Instead I recieved the shoulder stud with the big spacers and nuts which I am happy with but have to have my wheels machined to accept those spacers.
I was wondering if anyone had any ecperience with something like this.
I just want to purchase some sort of arbor 1 1/4" or 1 5/16" to macine my own flat seats seeing every machine shop around here wont touch it cause there scared.
Can some one please help me.
I was wondering if anyone had any ecperience with something like this.
I just want to purchase some sort of arbor 1 1/4" or 1 5/16" to macine my own flat seats seeing every machine shop around here wont touch it cause there scared.
Can some one please help me.
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Hello. I just built a 9" for my car and ordered the 5/8 wheel stud package thinking I would get the fully threaded studs and I could use a normal 60° seat lugnut. Instead I recieved the shoulder stud with the big spacers and nuts which I am happy with but have to have my wheels machined to accept those spacers.
I was wondering if anyone had any ecperience with something like this.
I just want to purchase some sort of arbor 1 1/4" or 1 5/16" to macine my own flat seats seeing every machine shop around here wont touch it cause there scared.
Can some one please help me.
I was wondering if anyone had any ecperience with something like this.
I just want to purchase some sort of arbor 1 1/4" or 1 5/16" to macine my own flat seats seeing every machine shop around here wont touch it cause there scared.
Can some one please help me.
Aluminum or steel wheels? What holes and seats are currently in the wheels?
Hub-centric wheels?
More information will help folks answer your questions.
Jon
Thanks for the reply. I am drag racing the car. Makes roughly 800hp so I went with the 5/8" studs.
The wheels are aluminum and have the 60* acorn seats in them for standard lug nuts. I wasn't expecting to get the 11/16 shoulder style race bolts instead I was expecting the full threaded 5/8 studs which you can get a 60* lug nut for.
I machined my wheels myself today seeing no machine shop would touch them.
I took a long 5/8 shoulder bolt and cut the head and threads off from the shoulder piece. Then I drilled through the shoulder lengthwise on a drill press with a 11/32" bit. Which is standard sbc valve stem diameter.
Then I took a nice square block of wood I found and drilled a 5/8 hole in it and put my bolt shoulder in it sticking up. I placed the wheel one lug hole at the time over the bolt shoulder which is being used to serve as a pilot.
Then I rented a 1 1/2 inch valve spring seat cutter and a 11/32" arbor from the local machine shop. I carefully place all this together in a drill press and drove the seat cutter into the aluminum making a perfect circle until it became perfectly level with the original lug nut seats.
I did all ten holes with not problems and it looks professional.
I'm very happy with it.
The wheels are aluminum and have the 60* acorn seats in them for standard lug nuts. I wasn't expecting to get the 11/16 shoulder style race bolts instead I was expecting the full threaded 5/8 studs which you can get a 60* lug nut for.
I machined my wheels myself today seeing no machine shop would touch them.
I took a long 5/8 shoulder bolt and cut the head and threads off from the shoulder piece. Then I drilled through the shoulder lengthwise on a drill press with a 11/32" bit. Which is standard sbc valve stem diameter.
Then I took a nice square block of wood I found and drilled a 5/8 hole in it and put my bolt shoulder in it sticking up. I placed the wheel one lug hole at the time over the bolt shoulder which is being used to serve as a pilot.
Then I rented a 1 1/2 inch valve spring seat cutter and a 11/32" arbor from the local machine shop. I carefully place all this together in a drill press and drove the seat cutter into the aluminum making a perfect circle until it became perfectly level with the original lug nut seats.
I did all ten holes with not problems and it looks professional.
I'm very happy with it.
