Well, maybe. You'd be surprised what you can find if you ask. Long ago in a land far away, I used to have some hot-rodded Fiats, including a full-on road racer, and didn't have to try too hard to get studs and nuts to fit. The SCCA GT 2 Datsun 510 had the same kind of chrome flat bottomed nuts, albeit in a Japanese metric thread pitch, and I don't recall any problems finding them. We did have a lot of trouble with the ATE BMW front calipers we adapted for rear brakes though. You had to remove them to bleed them because the nipples were now on the bottom! Jake On 6/15/06, BenT Syncro <syncro@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 6/15/06, Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Ben, you should be able to fit those flat ones with a regular old > > fashioned flat bottomed mag wheel nut, just like the olden days! > > > > > Jake, > > The problem with the olden days in Hugh Knighted Stays of Amurka is they > used SAE threads on their lugnuts/bolts. It will be mighty difficult to find > metric flat bottomed ... err.... wheel nuts > > > > BenT >
-- Jake 1984 Vanagon GL 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie" www.crescentbeachguitar.com |
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