Landrover Defender - Wheel nuts/studs

M16 x 1.5mm from memory

M16 x 1.5

EMB/Dougal

That's great!! Many thanks for the replies.

Regards

Paul

On or around Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:27:11 -0700 (PDT), Paul R enlightened us thusly:

make sure you hunt metric nuts for them... should be OK if you stick to

earlier models had UNF, I think, and I believe series I had BSF.

Never been UNF as far as I remember. Earlier (to Series IIA) were

The nuts joining the two halves of the SDC split rims have been 1/2"-20 UNF. There may have been other variants.

On or around Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:36:03 +0100, Dougal enlightened us thusly:

I guess they might have gone straight from BSF to Metric. Although the IIA seems a tad early for the UK car industry to be putting metric stuff on :-)

It was - metric started on Series III.

It did, but not on the early Series 3, they still had the B.S.F with the small nuts. When the studs used to come out with the nuts on Series 2s and also take out the threads due to there being more threads in the double ended nuts when rusted on, I used to replace them with the press in studs from the early Series 3, also having to size the hole and countersink the hub flange to seat them properly. Still alright if you have an old Series I or II with this problem (576825 pt. no. for stud)

Martin

That's a single ended BSF nut you're describing?

I wish that I'd known about that thirty something years ago but, fortunately, my hub threads survived to live again.

I'm glad I'm not the only one still doing them like that.

double-ended.

Sure is, but you can still use the double ended ones on them. Some MOT stations used to have a moan saying the threads didn't come entirely through the nut but usually ok'd it when shown the length of the threads in the nuts intended for those studs.

Funnily enough I got asked for one of the old hubs with the threaded in studs only last week and I still had a new one in stock. More shelf space cleared. :-)