Technical Situation with old school mags - egg shaped lug nut holes

Previous owner had to have not tightened sufficiently. Surprisingly not all are affected the same - a couple need close attention but others aren't really too bad. Help on a fix? Thx

 

Take em to a shop and have them welded and drilled out

 

Are they magnesium mags? If so, welding is very tricky. If they are aluminum, not so much. Any pics of the damage?

 

No pics - they're stuffed in a barn, They are Magnesium.

 

There was an article a few yrs back in one of the streetrod mags on something similar, although iirc, they were 6-pin-drive & he wanted 5bolt style. So they drilled out the holes a fair amount larger, welded in solid "slugs", machined them flat & drilled the desired lug pattern. Quite the save.
Marcus...

 

***uming the center (hub hole) in the wheels is larger than your hub, you can buy spacer rings to make the wheels hub-centric. Common and popular I.D. and O.D. ring sizes are not hard to find. Then you can hang the wheels on the hubs and put the lugnuts on all wheel hole studs that aren't ******ed to begin with. Snug them down part way and then add in the rest of the nuts in the wonky holes. Make the wheels hub-centric and the nuts and studs only have the job of clamping the wheel backside to the hub.
You should be able to tell while mounting if it's working according to plan. And a test drive will be another big clue.
Do magnesium wheels usually have 'shank nuts' and not tapered seats? I think so but I'm not sure. "Shanks" should actually work better at this. But if the wheels are too far gone, or you're pushing a 1000hp and you believe that you can spin 'em regardless, or your nerves will be too psyched out to relax enough to enjoy driving, then the ultimate fix is to get the bolt pattern sleeved or filled-n-drilled as per the above suggestions.

 

Running wheels hub-centric is a real good idea all the time.
Half of the "Can't find the vibration in my ......." threads here would disappear overnight if everyone did it.

 

My Mag Hals had been repaired around the lug nuts when I bought them, They have stainless slugs in, that have been drilled for the pcd. they were done by Rods West I believe.

 

I'm curious as to how this is done as I can't imagine the inserts are somehow welded. Interference fit no doubt but I'm thinking the inserts must be top hat shaped?

Chris