03-08-2003, 06:06 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Northern California,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine: -Sold- Contemporary 427S/C # CCX-3152 1966 427 Med Rise Side Oiler, 8v 3.54:1 Salisbury IRS, Koni's.. (Now I'm riding Harleys)
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I thought of the same thing Rick, perhaps using .750 bar stock or billet reducing the likelyhood that one of the 20 I have to use on my new wheels will do the same thing. To their credit I did somehow manage to get 21 pin studs in the package with the hubs.. I am a little gun shy about putting too much force on these things now, I won't even call it torque.. I might have had 15-18 lbs on the one that split. The thing is the hardened steel pin doesn't give you any warning before it fails, no deformation of the allen head, nothing..
The pins supplied are pretty thin walled at the wrench head and they don't need to be.. the pin is .750" and the allen wrench is a 12mm.. It could be much smaller, increasing the wall thickness as well as decreasing the likelyhood too much effort is used, if in fact we are using too much effort.. But then they are lug pins for goodness sake.. I was thinking they should be much tighter than I ever got them before I had the failure.
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