Wheel stud install / coolant catch

#1

What is the best way to secure wheel studs without welding?

And what have you all found to be the best way to handle setting up a coolant catch tank?

Do these cars need an oil beather catch as stated in CCR’s?

Thanks again.
Tom

#2

I mounted an aluminum catch tank in the ‘hole’ left by the a/c dryer. Didn’t even have to drill holes, just made two angled brackets and screwed it into the existing plastic fasteners. It has a drain petcock on the bottom that I can access from behind the fender.
I don’t think our cars require a oil catch as the factory breather system takes care of that.
Haven’t installed wheel studs yet. :whistle:

#3

catsailor wrote:

[quote]What is the best way to secure wheel studs without welding?

And what have you all found to be the best way to handle setting up a coolant catch tank?

Do these cars need an oil beather catch as stated in CCR’s?

Thanks again.
Tom[/quote]

Tom,

I bought the smallest coolant catch tank from Pep Boys for around 7.00. It fits nicely in the space formally occupied by the cruise control mechanism.

About a 3 minute job (if cruise control mechanism is gone).

-Steve

#4

Install wheel studs with Loctite and two nuts backed into one another so that you can torque the stud tight. If you use the allen heads on the end of the stud, you’ll round them (whidh, I suppose, doesn’t really matter because they can be backed out the same way they’re tightened).

Sashsa

#5

Tom,

If you run a thread cleaner (you can rent for free from Advance autoparts) through the hub the studs will go in very easily and you probably won’t round out the allen head socket - use blue loctite as Sasha mentioned. I have done this three-four times in the last 2 years with no problems. When you need to replace them, use a stud remover tool like below - since you will be pitching them anyway.
Ed

#6

I used my windshield washer resovior as the coolant catch can. Just pop a hole in the top, and put the hose down into it. No cost and 2 minute job.

#7

I believe it states that the catch can must be metal.

JP

#8

My catch can is a water bottle. I drilled a hole in the top that’s slightly smaller than the hose so the hose stays tight.

Also, I like a functioning washer fluid system. At Nelson Ledges a few years ago, a leading car dropped a wheel and splashed muddy water onto my windshield. The wipers just smeared it because the rain had stopped a couple of hours earlier. I didn’t know the track so I had to slow down and go to the pit lane, and missed the qualifying session.

From then-on, I’ve had working washers and have used them a few times.

Carter

#9

Yeah I was planning on keeping my window washing system.

#10

My catch can was an old fire dead extinguisher.

Unscrew the top and dump the poweder out. OR "practice" putting out a fire if it still has pressure.

I mounted it in the hole left by the AC component mounted in the RF corner. Used an angle bracket and a hose clamp.

Light and aluminum. perfect.

#11

Old brake fluid cans work also.

JP

#12

Thanks for all of the ideas, we’ll be working on it this weekend.

#13

Catch can must be at least 1 liter capacty. I looked at the rules and it does not mention the material…I thought it used to be metal as well.

#14

What about the cars with integral overflows. Is my stock stuff fine or do I need to figure out a way to attach a "catch"?

#15

robweenerpi wrote:

You need the catch tank for the small line that comes from the top of the radiator overflow tank. This is for when the pressure increases and the cap releaves the pressure. Look around the filler neck. If the line is gone there should be a nipple.

Michael

#16

robweenerpi wrote:

That’s really a NASA issue so I would ask a NASA tech guy.

Carter

#17

Old cars: The windshied washer tank is a great catch bottle as it is located next to the radiator over flow. Just drill a hole in the washer fluid cap snd plug-off the holes in the bottom of the washer tank. Looks real factory-like. And, since the rules don’t saw the washer bottle can be removed (at least I don’t think so…) it is a good way to put to use a useless part. Regards, Robert Patton