RE: Anyone replace their lug bolts with studs and nuts?

["Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>]

No offense Ron but comparing American car engineering to German engineering 
is like comparing steaming pile of shit to a freshly mowed lawn (minus the 
shit part) ;-)

Chris DeLong
ICQ#45030867
Seattle, WA USA
'80 16V 'Rocco ragtop
'91 GLi 2.0 16V
'77 Rabbit 16V
'80 'Vert (parting out!)
'61 17 Window type II
'91 Vanagon
'78 Rabbit
'78 Rabbit (for sale)
'87 GTi 16V



>From: Cheapass Ron <rapieper@yahoo.com>
>To: Chris DeLong <green536@hotmail.com>, LEF@chem-tronics.com,  
>rabbit16v@prodigy.net, scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: RE: Anyone replace their lug bolts with studs and nuts?
>Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:27:00 -0800 (PST)
>
>--- Chris DeLong <green536@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Studs break and wheels fall off. Hows that for a downside?
>
>Let's see...how many million American cars were made, nearly all with
>studs, nearly all with more weight and power, and have I *ever* heard
>of a stud breaking, causing a wheel to fall off?  Not once.
>
> > >WHY!!  Why would you want to use studs?
>
>I've got a pathetically bad back, even after recent surgery.  Holding a
>wheel against the hub, trying to spin it into place, and then thread a
>lug bolt is a GRAND PAIN IN THE ASS.  And in my back too.
>
>There is *NO* way anyone can convince me that studs are weaker than
>bolts.  Tell that to those who put ARP Raceware studs in their block to
>hold the head on.  Tell that to to the engineers who spec studs on
>intake and exhaust manifolds and downpipes.  Tell that to NASCAR and
>the 12-second four-tire changes...
>
>All using...studs.
>
>Now, can anyone else (thanks Larry) tell me where I can get them????
>
>Thanks
>
>"Please don't second-guess-me" Ron
>
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