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What length wheel bolts??
Several of mine are rounded, and the tyre place had to batter an undersized socket onto one of them to get it off - even then it took him quite a while.
I'm thinking about replacing all of them, but the sets on eBay seem to vary widely in length (20-55m FFS ), even though all specified for Rover 75. I've found that at least two of mine are different lengths too: Is there a "correct" or even optimum length for these? Thanks
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Drop Andy (trikey) a Pm i think he may have some new old stock ones and he will sort you out the right size. PS get a wire brush on the thread of all the rest to clean them out bottom one in your pic looks like it's been cross threaded at sometime.
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Yeah fortunately that one's never been fitted to my car - it's one from the collection that my mechanic had. Guess he didn't notice - he's usually pretty careful. It was educational watching the guy in the tyre place getting the top one off - long period of machine-gunning with the air wrench thingy, then hammered a socket (I assume a slightly smaller Imperial one or something) onto it, then the breaker bar, and it came off eventually
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If that bottom bolt has been in your hub, i would run a tap down the holes, it looks to have pulled the thread to me!
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Cheers Andy, but no, that's just one of the spares he gave me. Doesn't look great, does it
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Phew! It has definitely seen better days
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