Installing Hub Centric Spacers

[sydking]

Getting a set of hub centric spacers. These are something that need to be installed corectly, People have been running these even on the track for yeard with not a problem. Even Checked on a couple other fourms and the Off road guys are using them no problems in there 4x4s.

So. What is the best and safest way to go about it.

Toruqe the lugs proplerty to the right ammount

Loc-tite to be safe.

Ive also heard people mentioning Rings will be needed to make them sit on the Hubs, Nissan use a 66.1 and most spacers are a 77?

Now, The whole idea with hub centric spacers, is the wheel still sits on the hub, Not on the lugs.

[sydking]

http://www.hubcentric-rings.com/how_to_install_hub_centric_rings/

Something like this seem to be a MUST have when using hub centric spacers.

[boostn0199]

You can use loctite if your paranoid but I just rattle gun mine up and in regards to the hub size the centrehub will be 66 if its for the skyline but what will change is depending on what size the bore on your rims are so in other words if your using the same rims you have now and they fit on your car with either stock bore or hubrings youll be right.

[GTSBoy]

All that the rings do is make sure that the wheels go on exactly centred before the wheel nuts get tightened up. The load of the car is not carried by the little hub lip, and especially not by the bit of plastic squeezed between the wheel and the hub lip. The weight of the car is not carried by the studs either. It is carried by the friction between the mating surfaces of the wheel and the hub. And that friction comes solely from the compressive force pushing them together, which is the tension in the studs caused by torquing up the wheel nuts. The hub rings just stop you from bolting it all together with the wheel slightly offcentre relative to the hub (which gives you a rather interesting ride, depending on how far off centre you get it.).

it is just as important that the bolt on spacers that you install are as centred onto the car's hub as the wheel is centred onto the spacer's hub. Ultimately you might end up needing two sets of rings, depending on the sizing of all your round bits.

[sydking]

Hmm 350z rims so stock nissan spec on stock hubs, were do I find torque sepcs for the spacers? And even the wheels?

[sydking]

looks like stock nissan tourque specs are 98-118nm, Not to sure how it works and why there would be 20nm space.

[sydking]

Cant find any info on this,

Possible to buy aftermarket wheel studs? Just a peice of mind thing really.

[sydking]

jst called local nissan,

GTst wheel studs are $4.20 a each.

ive got GTR front hubs....And belive it or not...GTR studs are cheaper at $4.

Also front studs are diffrent size to the rear...But i was told they dont have acsess to the size specs. So thats pretty useless.

[J-a-y]

Make sure the wheel is off the ground when tightening or loosening the wheel nuts with hub centric rings.

Wheel nuts are held by friction between the nut and rim, not the threads. I use a tiny amount of grease on the threads so the threads don't wear.