wheel studs

[ibanez0110]

so i'm having a super difficult time with this... i have aftermarket which are thicker then the stock ones. the guy i bought my car from put longer studs in the oem hubs...worked great. of course, a month after owning the car, the wheel bearings in the front went out, and as i've found, all of the aftermarket hub/bearing assemblies come with the same studs, which are too short/not enough thread. i've been to about 10 different places today, including tire places, muffler man, tuffy, autozone, all of that. the only place i had some hope at was carquest, and i'll find out tommorrow if the studs they ordered might work, there might be a clearance issue with it being flared a bit by the knurl...if that makes sense. anyway, if anyone has had similar problems, please tell me what they did....or what studs they ordered..

[tblake]

Why are your studs longer? Aftermarket wheels? Why not just remove the studs off the old wheel hub and install them in the newer one.

[grandprixgtx00]

Originally Posted by tblake

Why not just remove the studs off the old wheel hub and install them in the newer one.

X2 thats what i was thinking...

[ibanez0110]

yes, the studs are longer because of aftermarket wheels. and the studs out of the old hubs are different. for some reason, aftermarket hubs come with different studs.

[tblake]

Originally Posted by ibanez0110

....aftermarket hubs come with different studs.

Hmmm, are you sure you have the right replacement hub? They shouldn't have different studs. What brand did you buy?

[ibanez0110]

i'm 99% sure it's the right one, i've heard from a few people in parts stores that they have dealt with this problem before, that aftermarket hubs come with different studs, and are really hard to find the same ones, especially longer ones. i just want to avoid either having to buy oem hubs, or different rims.