<VV> LM bolt stress ?

[Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per]

This assumes that they all bend concentrically ?

Is this what makes "the engineer in you" nervous ?

It's "just" 1/80th inch for each lug but that could "erode" something 
eventually, stressing the stud ?

When I found my mother's Hornet wagon to be missing one stud on EACH wheel 
(broken off by an overzealous lug wrench !?!?), an American Motors Service 
Department Manager said, and I quote, "That's why they so many on them."

Makes me wonder where the "engineer" was in him ?!?!?

Velly Inellesting ...




----- Original Message ----- 
From: <JVHRoberts at aol.com>
To: <r.gault at sbcglobal.net>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> LM bolt pattern


>
> Centering good, stud bending, BAD!!! Adjusting the holes is cheap and 
> easy.
>
> In a message dated 5/19/2007 6:29:40 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> r.gault at sbcglobal.net writes:
>
> Many  folks have done this with no problems both inside and outside the
> Corvair  community, but it does make the engineer in me nervous.  If I 
> was
> going to use these, I'd make an adaptor/spacer to push the wheel out 
> a1/4"
> or so and fix the centering hole mismatch.  The additional 1/4"  would 
> allow
> plenty of length to "bend" the studs without stressing  them.
>
> Roger
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From:  <JVHRoberts at aol.com>
> To: <chaz at ProperProPer.com>;  <TimogensTurbo at aol.com>
> Cc: <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
> Sent:  Saturday, May 19, 2007 4:46 PM
> Subject: Re: <VV> LM bolt  pattern
>
>
>>
>> DEFINITELY NOT A GOOD IDEA!! You wind up with  one hell of a bending load
> on
>> the studs, and you lose the centering  of the wheel, since the BMW wheels
> have
>> a  larger center hole.  Given the mismatch of bolt circles, any chance of
>> decent   concentricity is lost. Someone here listed an outfit that'll
> remachine  the
>> wheels to correct the bolt pattern for fairly  cheap.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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