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Or take a 308ss rod and tack the insides. Take some quarter inch cold roll and bend it in a O the same as the lug pattern so it can be tacked to all the heads.
It really depends on how often you plan on taking the tire off cause we know Murphys law he will show up when you don't need him to...
Water(moisture), sand, mud always get in places that they don't belong. You could Teflon coat the outside.
Even stainless steel in constant contact with regular steel will rust.
Michigan was a salty place with lots of moisture atleast 8 months out of the year.
You might want to double knurl those long studs so your spacer gets a knurl and it comes thru the hub a little more.
First time they are a little rusty and you hit it with an impact that small inside knurl is going to give out and spin
You can also check the Euclid catalog for longer thimbles and put your thimbles on first wirh a flat spacer at the base over the stud then you wheel. You could probably use 1/2" sae L9 washers and get a thimbles that's a little longer than stock.
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