QUOTE(Aaron Cox @ May 31 2006, 07:21 PM)
trusting my wheels (and life) to red loctite is not appealing
be safe out there
Arron and others, don't take this personally...
You f'n anti-screw-in wheel stud people need to pull your head out of your @ss !!!!!!
Screw-in studs used with nuts are far superior to the stock "bolts", yet you fling or flung your car around for years using that method....
The only reason for the bad press on screw-in studs is from dumb, cheap owners that used the stuff sold at the bug shops or JC Whitney that used inferior material and never heard of a thread locking compound.
The good studs are not threaded all the way, they have a X amount of threads that go into the flange and when tightened you not only have the threads in tension, there is a clamping force between the diameter of the body of the unthreaded stud and the flange. Now install the wheel and add a nut, once tightened you have tension of the stud as well as clamping between the nut and the wheel.
With just a bolt like previous, you have tension of the bolt as well as friction against the wheel, the problem is that the friction can change so that the tension can change as well.
With the loctite that Dan is using, the only way (if applied properly to clean threads), the only way for those studs to come loose would be to apply 500° to the threads while at the same time trying to remove them with tools.
Since all the studs are the same length, it should be pretty damn obvious if stud is working it's way out.
(I don't give a hoot if you are using 911 parts now, before when running stock /4 parts, you had bolts)
I guess the BMW Club Racing guys are a bunch of idiots since they all use screw-in studs which are 12mm instead of our 14mm studs
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