Cross-Threaded Wheel Nuts

[mark_airey]

Here is a thought...

My front wheel hub started chewing up wheel nuts in one of the holes. It cross-threads on the 2nd thread of the thicker part of the bolt nearer the head.

So is this cross-threading happening in the hub? With the thickness of the brake disk and the wheel, that thicker part of the bolt doesnt reach far enough to mate with the hub.

are there threads in the alloy holes? there isnt in the brake disk, thats just smooth holes.

Dont want to rip out my hub and put a new one in and find out that wasnt the problem.

Any help would be great!

Cheers

2 stupid questions first:- have you checked the threads on the bolt?? and also have you tried another bolt in the hole??

because as you say, there are no threads in the disc and there shouldn't be any in the wheel either so if it does the same thing using a different bolt then it can't really be anything other than the thread in the hub.

Could always run a tap through and see if you can rescue it before swapping hubs maybe?