Installation Question
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Installation Question
I'm trying to test fit my wheels on my car before I buy tires. I had to run a 5mm spacer in the front to clear the brakes and I am also using hubcentric rings for my wheels. My question is how do you install the wheels? Do I push the hubcentric ring into the wheel then mount them onto the studs with the spacer flush against the hub? When I do this it does not like nice at all. How do you keep the spacer in the center around the hub and the ring?
Another question...say I hand tightened my lug nuts on to my wheel studs. How many more turns would I get before the nuts are torqued to spec?
Another question...say I hand tightened my lug nuts on to my wheel studs. How many more turns would I get before the nuts are torqued to spec?
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No. If you run a 5mm spacer, it is spacing the wheel out to where it will not center on the hub, might be 1-2mm still poking out past the spacer though. There is no point to run a hubcentric ring because of this, although it shouldn't make anything worse because the ring should be flush with the wheel mounting pad. Hopefully that makes sense, you have basically eliminated a hubcentic fitment with the spacer. Some spacers have a new "hub" built in so you don't lose the hubcentric fitment but usually those are larger size like 20 or 25mm.
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Hard to say exactly, but in my experience if they are hand tight then not much, maybe another 1/2 to 1 turn? The thread pitch is 1.5mm, so you are losing 3.33 turns with a 5mm spacer.