Thread: range rover wheel studs

Well depends on if there is the dash or the triangle on the end of the wheel stud.

I have fitted alloys to non alloy wheel studs ( on a 1972 RRC ) and what happens is that the wheel nuts work their way lose and need to be regularly tightened.

I think the early steel wheel studs are shorter than the alloy wheel studs, so that you do not have the number of threads engaged in the alloy nut.

Land Rover are very specific and there are legal issues ( unlikley to ever happen)that the nut should have the equal or greater number of threads engaged when changing wheels. there is a very big thread on this on the D3 section.
Regards Philip A

I had 93 and 94 Discos that had steel wheels as standard and later put on Cheviot Discovery Alloy wheels on them - the wheels came with different wheel nuts and I never had an issue.

So make sure you get the correct wheel nuts for the wheels.

Garry

So make sure you get the correct wheel nuts for the wheels.

The only wheel nuts that fit a RRC OEM alloy are RRC OEM nuts.
You cannot generalise about nuts and fitting to alloy wheels as there are many different retention methods, but RRC alloys have a flat based nut which clinches onto the wheel, while many others have steel inserts and maybe tapered nuts.
So IMHO you should really change the studs to have a trouble free run assured.
Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by Reads90

Well depends on if there is the dash or the triangle on the end of the wheel stud.

probably a stupid question, answered several times but

dash = steel??
triangle = alloy??

Probably. Seeing the dash ones were on early cars before they introduced mags. AFAIR mags only became available after 4 door was introd.

The steel ones are just long enough to emerge from a steel nut done up, probably to stop rust preventing them from being undone.
Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by stufale

Could anyone shed some light on why you should not fit say 1993 Range Rover alloy rims to a 1976 Range Rover? Apart from the hub clearance?
Thx Stufale

Apart from the proper nuts to use, alloys will go on early hubs, but don't fit readily. And then they don't come off. They jam.

I thought the studs that had the slash on their ends were the alloy-accepting ones. Early ones have nothing?

Regards
Max P

Originally Posted by Tusker

Apart from the proper nuts to use, alloys will go on early hubs, but don't fit readily. And then they don't come off. They jam.

I thought the studs that had the slash on their ends were the alloy-accepting ones. Early ones have nothing?

Regards
Max P

Tusker is right.

You need a keep a jack pole or bar on the car to lever the rim of the hub when you need to change the wheel.

Best way is to lever between the hub and disc, this will just pop them off.