Napa's listing is blank for LH thread wheel studs on my 69 Dart with 9" drums. What do I do?

I pressed out the RH thread studs on a replacement hub I bought used for the car, and I noticed the end of the splines on the stud was flattened to hold the drum in place. When I pressed it out it upset the metal around it and dished out the recess on the otheer side where the head sits, and probably expanded the splines a little. If I gently press the LH thread studs out of my damaged hub, will I be able to press them into the "new" hub with Loctite or something without the nuts working loose?

Can I reuse my old studs, or better yet, can I find new ones in Canada?

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I've been calling it as i see it for my entire life and that's not about to change. Take it or leave it.

Is there some reason you can't press the right-hand studs into the left side drums/hubs? I did that on my '68 twenty years ago and haven't had a problem.

The left-side, left hand threads were just one of Mopar's little foibles that they didn't change along with Ford and GM. (Yes, both of them had the same thing in the early fifities.)

I seem to recall some kind of cutting tool that could be used in a drill that would take care of those edges at the top of the stud shoulder. Used before one tried to press them out, it made the rest of the job easier, and didn't mis-shape the hole.

Roger

I'm sure my car will do fine with RH thread studs, but if I were to do that, it would be just one more unique quirk of the car to succumb to entropy. I like the LH studs and I want to keep them.

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I've been calling it as i see it for my entire life and that's not about to change. Take it or leave it.

There is a special swaging tool to reset the new studs. I know when I took out my last set I cut the stud off flush and drilled partially down through the stud. Then I was able to drive out the remaining stud without damaging the hub.

I for the life of me do not understand why someone doesn't make a simple press in stud for our mopars? If no one else swedges theirs in why is it necessary for ours to be such a pain?

Just a little gripe session!!

Rick

oh dear...

well I still havent a clue where Im going to find LH thread studs, and I'm considering reusing my old ones, but I'm afraid I will compress the threads when I press them out of my old hub! I cant drive my Dart any longer with the hub that's in it, as the outer bearing race bore has worn away and the bore shoulder is abrading away at an alarming rate. I do NOT want to drive all the way to Beaverton again to buy another hub just because I was given the wrong one in the first place and I took it apart. It's an allday outing to go up there!

Yeah, I know, fedex. Help!

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I've been calling it as i see it for my entire life and that's not about to change. Take it or leave it.

The Chrysler part number for 1966 is 2409809 for the left side and 2409808 for the right. I'm guessing the same part is used on a '69.

collectorsautosupply.com lists them in their inventory and shows they have 13 NOS studs available for the left side. They are located in southern British Columbia, so service should be quick. Their price is $3.60 each, but I don't know if that's US or Canadian.

Thank you! Studs are on order. Itll be a week or so though

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I've been calling it as i see it for my entire life and that's not about to change. Take it or leave it.