10 Hole Budd Wheels On Old Mack Trucks ?

[JerryB]

Hey Guys,

I worked in trucks shops in the late '60's thru the '70's and fought the busted lug issue

on Alum wheels, tearing my hair as I went along.

Took a bit to work thru, but came up with a cure-all in the problem!

The inner studs, the ones that are in the hub, come in differant lengths.

IF you put ALUM wheels on studs the right length for STEEL wheels the only thing that carries the weight on the outer wheel

is the inside nut, and they WILL break!

Because of the much thicker ALUM wheel, the inner stud will not support the outer wheel.

That's why they break the inner nut, and the out side wheel comes off

Even the inner nuts for ALUM wheels are longer, to make up for the thicker wheel.

So-o-o, check to make sure that the STUD extends thru BOTH wheels.

At the time, Alum wheels were just comming into big time use, and because they

were lighter, making for more payload, the big switch was on!!

I replaced a lot of inner nuts and bought a pile of outer nuts.

After the the problem was found and longer studs were installed, the issue went away!

By the way - - - my hair never grew back!!!!!! LMAO

Packer

You're right. I learned the hard way too.