Wheel Spacers?!!!HELP!!!

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I have a 88 300zx :zlove: and have just got some 18x7.5 wheels.

i tryed to put them on and they go on the hub but when i try to tighten them up the bolt doesnt reach the wheel and they are just loose as and the bolt isnt even touching the wheels.

do i need wheel spaces or just like longer bolts?

:help:

Thanks

 

do they rub against the calipers? if they dont then just longer bolts which cost i $3 from nissan apparently

 

i dont think so, ill check.

If they do then will i need spacers?

and do you know how i can get the longer bolts from nissan? as in call or email?

Thanks mate

 

Nismo has long wheel studs. I had em on my car along with wheel spacers I had for my old set of rims that couldnt clear the front calipers ... Ive got them off now with new rims

 

Wheel studs/bolts are too heavy to send via email.

 

I recently got 18s on my zx and when they were fitting them on he said my normal bolts wouldn't fit so he gave me 20 new bolts that would fit, 4 on each wheel plus a lock nut on each. Did you get the rims from a shop or off a private seller?

 

Could you kindly show some pics of this 5 wheel Z32?

 

i got them off a private seller but i know the place that sell them, should i just go there do you reckon?

Thanks

 

Where about did you get them from and how much were they?

 

Your wheels are too big and the wrong offset.

 

Can you post up a pic of what you mean?

I've read through this a few times and it still dosent' make sence to me Too much incorrect terminology perhaps

Are your saying you can't do the nuts up enough or you can't even get the nuts started on the studs?

Ben

 

i have 8mm spacers with my stock studs, then nuts go about 5 whole rounds tightened with 125nm (no more no less),

show some pics of the wheel on the car if u can and how things dont fit

 

8mm spacer !!?? are you serious? do you know how many mm the studs left to be tighten?

if i were you, i wouldnt go more than 3mm! (better NO!) this is just scarily unsafe!

 

I have 25mm spacers, they bolt onto the hub studs and have their own studs you bolt the wheel to. Much safer IMO, but still not recommended.

 

They're adapters.

 

well, i work at a tyre shop, i´ve tested this and it´s ok the first week i checked if they were getting lose, but to this day 3 months later they are still tight and no problems, and i drift somewhat when wet (if u tighten them 125nm u leave enough stretch in the nuts so they dont come lose, if u tighten more they will come lose)

 

Jesus, are we talking wheel studs here or wheel nuts? Why would the wheel shop give you four studs(bolts) and a lock nut?

 

Not really a matter of your nuts loosening M8, but a matter of insufficient engagement of the male and female threads.
If you bolts/nuts are the same material, which they are definitely not, ( nust are usually very sof and "sacrificial", studs are as tough as buggery) youd need at least 65% of the bolt diameter in thread engagement which you barely have now.
Youd ideally need at least 100% of the stud diameter.

Your own live nuts will loosen considerably if those wheel nut threads pull out during one of your drifting sessions and that wheel tucks up underneath the wheel arch or worse, flicks out and clouts some poor pedestrian in the conk!

I would be attending to this potentially dangerous setup as a matter of course.

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