Re: Montreal wheel studs

[JHertzman@domain.elided]

John (warped sense of humor) Justus imagines that Montreal studs are the same 
as the 1750 studs, which should be available from an Alfa dealer, and I would 
wager that he is absolutely correct, but if so they should also be 
interchangable with the later, longer, all right-handed studs used on the 
2000 and later cars, which would make a Montreal a tad less original but a 
tad more practical. On Dave Pratt's original question, "Failing that, how far 
would you drive the car (if at all) with two (adjacent) broken studs?", my 
answer would be not at all, unless I was in the wrong part of town in the 
wrong part of the night. Wheels that come off can play hell with fenders. 

Dana Loomis recently replaced the studs on his 1750 with "a racing part made 
by Moroso for, I believe, GM applications. - - - The only reason to prefer 
these to any others, as far as I know, is that they're the same diameter as 
the stock metric studs and long enough to put up to a 1/2" spacer behind an 
alloy wheel - -"  so it would appear that international standards may cover 
the stud-to-hub dimensions regardless of the threads, which could be handy to 
know in a pinch.

John H.
Raleigh, N.C.

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