Yeah I would have never thought that the lugs would have mattered but they did.
He bought some from autozone or one of those shops I will ask him tonight and then get back to you as soon as I know.
Sorry got busy last night. He said they are just shanked lug nuts. I went to the auto parts store today to look and see if there was something that could tell me what they where or a part number but they had about 5 different shank sizes lengths and girths to choose from so I'm not honestly sure. So I asked the guy behind the counter and he asked what rims and what kind of car. He need to know all of that before helping me. So I know I was no help but if you ask them they may be able to help you out. If it turns out it is not the lugs take them back and get your money back for them.
Thanks. I am going to try and play around with it this weekend. I will post any positive results.
I think I may be on to something here. I took one of my stock GT rims off of my wife's car that use to be on mine and I checked the size of the hub to the size of my new rims and there is what appears to be .001 difference. The hubs on my stang match in size the stock GT rims. So, what I did is wrapped the hubs on my stang with aluminum tape, (1 time around) and the shimmy was still there but not as bad. Now, I called the rim manufacturer and asked if the rims were hub centric and they said yes, no spacers needed.SO, here asre the pics.
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This is the stock GT rim
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This is my new rim
wow...I wonder if Ford changed hubs down the line somewhere....tolerances and stuff...maybe the rim was based on a certain year, and then Ford pulled a fast one?
Either that, or the rims themselves are out of spec...?
very interesting....
I just thought of something...are you sure you're taking a measurement on the exact center line of each rim?
very interesting....makes me wonder about my rims since i've been chasing a wobble/shaking from the front end for years...
I only drove the car once on the highway with stock rims and shitty tires and it also road like crap, but I can't be sure it wasn't related to the tires anyways- so; I could never eliminate my rims nessasarily.
Why don't you put all 4 stock rims back on and go for a ride?
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