dlogvine
Master Chief Petty Officer
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- May 4, 2015
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I tried to replace my spare tire on the trailer and encountered the following problem. I was removing the nut from the tire spare wheel holding bolt and the nut appeared to be stuck really hard. I used the breaker bar to break this bolt. Thought I could get its replacement really easily in either a hardware store or any automotive one. However to my great surprize I could not find ANY place where this bolt is sold. It is 1/2" diameter 20 pitch carriage bolt. It has a square cross-section close to the head to prevent it from spinning inside of the spare wheel mount. The only carriage bolts with 1/2" diameter I was able to find were coarse thread bolts 1/2"-13. I spend 3-4 hours driving from one store to another including trailer places, hardware stores, fastener stores. The only bolts I was able to find were carriage bolts with coarse thread. However there are no tapered nuts (wheel lugs) for this type of bolts. The wheel studs of this diameter 1/2" with the fine thread 20pitch were not carriage bolts but all round. Online search yielded exactly the same results, zero, zilch! On all my other trailers (older ones) I have the exactly the same fine thread 1/2" carriage bolts. Did they stop manufacturing them? Or where could I find these type of carriage bolts 1/2"x20-2"