Wheel Spacer nut striped.
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OP I feel your pain. I too have stripped a couple of nuts in my Ichiba V2 spacers already and I'm super careful with my stuff. The kit you listed is the same one I bought and it doesn't work because the removers are low profile and don't get enough of a grip to work. Get the same kit with deeper removers and it should do the trick.
And yes, my nuts are 17mm.
And yes, my nuts are 17mm.
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Woops, i kept on looking and... since the spacer nut is 17 mm. Is this what you used? http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_1...61000P?prdNo=7
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Same thing happened to me with their 15mm spacers. Their nuts are soft and shallow as hell (hmmmmm). Anyway, I emailed them and complained and they sent me like 10 spares free saying they should be torqued at 75-80 lbs. I drilled out the stud and saved the spacer...but it took forever.
You have to be very careful when you tighten them to hold the wrench perfectly perpendicular to the nut...If it slips off you can do that once...twice maximum and the nut is gone.
Has anyone found a replacement for their shallow type nuts and is there a technical reason why they are using such a soft material?
You have to be very careful when you tighten them to hold the wrench perfectly perpendicular to the nut...If it slips off you can do that once...twice maximum and the nut is gone.
Has anyone found a replacement for their shallow type nuts and is there a technical reason why they are using such a soft material?
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I had the same problem! I had my v2 spacers on for 6 months.When I went to take them off the driver side front and rear came off no problem. But when I went to take off the passenger side 3 nuts on the rear were seized and 2 on the front. We tried everything to get them off and no luck. We ended up stripping the nuts and then had to torch and chisel them off. I also sent to emails to ichiba and still have had no response. After doing some research I realized I'm not the only person that this has happened too. So now I have one good 25mm & 20mm spacer if anyone need one or both. Here's some pictures
Last edited by JJSOLON; 11-29-2010 at 07:20 PM.