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What can you get from installing the titanium wheel (lug) stud conversion?
1. Studs protruding from the hub offer an easy way to align the wheel when mounting.
2. Longer studs allow for the use of different width wheel spacers without needed to change stud length. However, if using bolts, bolt length would have to change to account for the width of the wheel spacer to get proper thread engagement.
3. If mounting and dismounting wheels is a frequent operation for you (mostly for swapping wheel / tire setup) then it is arguably safer to wear the interface between the stud and the nut rather than the bolt and hub. If you are changing wheels often, there is a higher risk of cross-threading. If you cross thread the bolt in the hub, the fix is much more difficult and expensive compared to stripping a nut over a stud, for instance.
4. Studs have more consistent torque when using nuts. The interface between the threads on nuts and studs is always the same thread amount. This allows consistent torque values for all studs.
5. Contrastly, when bolts are installed into the wheel hub, more torque is needed to overcome the friction between the bolt and the hub. In other words, as more bolt threads are engaged with the hub, more torque is required to insert the bolt. This can account for inconsistent stretching with a bolt setup over a stud. Over stretching of the bolt may end in fatigue and shearing of a bolt.
Install the Forged Titanium Wheel Exposed Stud Conversion
