LLINV

I bought 1” wheel adapters to better fit my wide body rear fenders. After putting the wheel adapter on, I am seeing that the lug nuts actually protrude very slightly from the actual thickness of the adapter. My ccw wheels require that nothing extends past the thickness of the spacer as the mounting surface of the wheel is flat.

Any clever ideas? These lug nuts are small ...do they make them even more shallow?

c4cruiser

You may have to replace the OEM wheel studs with longer ones. Or get adapters that have studs already installed. These type of adapters are bolted to the OEM wheel studs and the wheel bolts to the studs supplied with the adapters.

ArtClassShank

Are they open ended lug nuts?

I have a hard time imagining why the the lug nuts would be the furthest out. The studs themselves should be the furthest out.

LLINV

kevbot

Find another set of lug nuts, perhaps the set you're using there are a little thicker/taller than normal. I'm running 25mm and 20mm adapters and had to trim the stock studs just a tad because the stock studs were what was causing clearance issues for me, not the lug nuts.

LLINV

I had to trim the smooth non threaded part of the wheel stud off. These lugs are pretty small/shallow already.

kevbot

Not the greatest photos, but here’s a couple I just dug up from when I put my adapters on. This is before I trimmed the non-threaded part off and you can see the lug nut is far enough recessed, and this wasn’t even tightened down all the way. There are still threads showing too.

Looking at your photo, if you only cut the non threaded part off and the studs don’t even stick past the lug nuts, there’s one of two things occurring:

1) the lug nuts are too tall
2) the recessed area where the stud sticks through and the lug nut tightens down was not machined out deep enough by the manufacturer. If it were machined deeper (basically if there were less adapter material between the lug nut and the hub) the lug nut could thread onto more of the stud.

LLINV

So I took my lugs off my other 1.5” adapters and the lugs actually work better and recess within my 1” adapter. Problem solved, adapters and wheels mounted. Love the look! Thank you to those who responded