Date:         Wed, 9 Jun 2010 13:50:03 -0700
Reply-To:     levi hawkins <b1levi@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         levi hawkins <b1levi@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Mercedes Wheels Installation Question  90 GL
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Another BTW,
You don't want to use vanagon ball seat lugnuts, they don't fit the clk interior contour correctly.
Vanagon ball seats are 14mm, and too large for the 12mm seat of the mercedes, even though the hole is drilled out to 14mm, you really need to use a 12mm ballseat there.

--- On Mon, 6/7/10, BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

From: BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Mercedes Wheels Installation Question  90 GL
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Monday, June 7, 2010, 6:07 PM



BTW, assuming you have the correct hardware to match the contours of
the lughole. For example, you put a ballseat lugnut in a conical seat
hole, you are applying the torque only in the portion that is
touching. Think wooden ball on top of a book shelf vs. block of wood
on the same shelf. Pressure would be at the point of the ball vs.
Evenly distributed on the block of wood. Holding ability is
dramatically different as torque on the wrong type of lugseat.


BenT

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On Jun 7, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET>
wrote:

> Got the Vanco 2's mounted on the CLK 16" rims and they fit the front
> with no issues or spacers and more than 7 full turns on the stock
> wheel bolts/nuts.
>