Will standard wheel bolts take 15mm spacers?
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Will standard wheel bolts take 15mm spacers?
Hi all
As the title suggests really, looking at getting some 15mm spacers on the front, just wanted to know if the standard bolts are long enough or wether to get longer ones?
Thanks.
As the title suggests really, looking at getting some 15mm spacers on the front, just wanted to know if the standard bolts are long enough or wether to get longer ones?
Thanks.
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Is this bloke for real? Hasn't he ever looked at the size of a screw he needed to hang something on the wall, or to join two bits of wood together? Oh I want to now screw three bits together, I'll just use the same screw.....
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As an update to this thread i didnt need 15mm spacers in the end, i got away with 10mm spacers, but still on standard bolts with no side affects so far. I guess they're longer and stronger than you think, but sometimes you've just got to do it rather than hear from people who dont know nothing.
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The length of any bolt thread that is actually used in its adjoining thread need only be equal in length to the diameter of the bolt. In other words if the bolt is 12mm diameter, then the thread needs to be 12mm long. Any longer and it make no difference to the strength of the fastener. Have you ever noticed on cars that use lug nuts instead of lug bolts, or one trucks/buses for instance, the height of the nut is identical to the diameter of the thread.
So, you must have this amount of thread or you are reducing the strength of the fastener. For safety, since you claim no side effects 'so far', and I would hate if your wheel fell off, make sure with your 10mm spacer that you do in fact have enough thread that is equal to the diameter of the bolt, else get longer bolts.
So, you must have this amount of thread or you are reducing the strength of the fastener. For safety, since you claim no side effects 'so far', and I would hate if your wheel fell off, make sure with your 10mm spacer that you do in fact have enough thread that is equal to the diameter of the bolt, else get longer bolts.
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The length of any bolt thread that is actually used in its adjoining thread need only be equal in length to the diameter of the bolt. In other words if the bolt is 12mm diameter, then the thread needs to be 12mm long. Any longer and it make no difference to the strength of the fastener.
As for my 10mm spacers, once the bolt goes on it still has about 2 to 3 threads left spare that go past the hub, so all is good.
A 15mm spacer would be pushing it, but to save myself the hassle of not having the right set of bolts once the spacers arrived i thought i would ask here incase anybody had ran into that problem before. Again, some people love having a go on things they know nothing about.
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Glad you have this solved. I am not sure you can claim some people having a go on things they know nothing about. Almost all those who take the effort to respond know a lot more than most asking for help/guidance and some know more than myself for which I am grateful for their help. This is an open forum and unless you spell out the exact problem you are solving and what you have discovered so far you are open to responses you may not like and you need to internally filter those and decide which is the best answer and be grateful. Not everyone has the skills to realize that there is no dumb question and can easily answer it flippantly. You think this is bad - it's not, try reading and keeping up on the Honda Forums - Anyway its about having fun and supporting each other so lets all remember that.
