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Lug Nut size for Minilite Mags on '71 Z?


Kerrigan

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Any idea what size/type are the lugnuts that will work with the Minilite mag wheels, the ones that require the flat bottom to the nut with a flat washer?

Are they 12mmx1.25 or is that just the stock 1971 240Z lugnut size?

Mine are all rusted and I'd love to get another set of lug nuts.

Thank you.

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What you have to watch is the length of the shaft, on the lug nuts for mags. Measure your old one's and replace them with the exact same length if possible. Sometimes it is no longer possible because the industry is now making only two or three standard lengths. In that case you have to get as close as possible, then use extra thick washers or two thin one's - if the lug shaft is too long.

Just make sure the lug shaft with the washer installed - does not stick through the thickness of the wheel.

FWIW,

Carl B.

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Good advice Carl! I just put American Racing Libre's on my Z and I went out and bought new mag wheel lug nuts (wheels didn't come with them). After I put the first one on, I noticed the nuts were too long. There was still play between the wheel and the hub.

As Carl so apply points out, you will only find two kinds in most any of the after market auto parts store and they may not work. I ended up going to a very large specialty wheel store in So Cal. They had a bag full of the nuts with the shorter shaft, so I bought a complete set.

Suggest if you can't find them at your normal Autozone, Cragin's etc. give a specialty wheel retailer a try.

Good luck!

Bob

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  • 4 weeks later...

Located some replacement lugnuts for the Minilite Mags on the FairladyZ. What a search!

Tire America is ordering a set.

Take a week before I know if they will truely work.

Lugnuts for these Minilites are made of unobtainium I think ....

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  • 3 months later...
  • 4 years later...

No they didn't.

Did get a non-matching set, 8 of one style, 8 of another style that were very close. It was close enough to win a class in a show, one style on one side, the other on the opposite ;-)

I finally got my old ones rechromed (very spendy).

Looking for same thing myself. Did Tire America come up with the correct lug nuts? If they worked would like to know and if you have a part number it would be a big help.
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