M.H. Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 When a tyre has a size of 205r16 whats the profile ratio? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllTorque Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Is it a commercial (8ply)? most of them don't have a profile number because they only come in one height. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.H. Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Yea they are commercial tyres, brothers van has 215/75/16 on it now and dont want to go smaller diameter as it already revs too high Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raizer Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 I thought normally commercial tyre work out to be 82 profile? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokin'joe Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 34 minutes ago, Raizer said: I thought normally commercial tyre work out to be 82 profile? was gonna say 80, but what 2% aspect ratio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Yeah I though 80 too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raizer Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 "With a standard tyre, the sidewall height is usually 82 percent of the nominal section width." https://www.tyre-shopper.co.uk/tyre-information/tyre-information-understanding-and-reading-a-tyre-size-and-load-index First result on Google lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighLUX Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Vehicle with CVT trans about to click over 200thou with weird hot clutch kinda smell after driving Trans getting sad? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOHC Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 are Airtex water pumps any good or are they shit? I had one on my car and its started pissing out water, I wound say it has 60,000 kms on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raizer Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 What steel are wheel studs, guessing something super hard? Some monkey used trailer wheel nuts on 1 of my vans front wheels and they're so deep in the wheel a socket only engaged half the nut, they managed to tighten them to the point I snapped a wheel socket undoing them FFS. Anyway I rounded off the last nut, have been trying to drill the stud but just keep either instantly dulling HSS bits or snapping them. Carbide bit the way to go? Heading to Auckland Saturday and would rather like to have 5 studs/nuts instead of 4 and a cold chiseled mess haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mof Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Can you get the hub off and grind off the head from the inside? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raizer Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Had that thought earlier, I managed* to get the hub off complete with wheel and brake caliper, but it turns out to get to the back of the studs you have to unbolt the rotor from the hub and to get to the rotor bolts the wheel needs to come off. *I say managed as the grease cap from the hub was bigger than the centre hole of the wheel. My plan is/was to drill through the stud until its weak enough to snap off, but I've chewed through every drill bit I had on it already and barely made a hole in the stud. Tried drilling the nut, that seemed to go ok at first, bit of cold chiseling and it looks like there's fuck all nut left but it won't budge at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 How about one of those universal socket things for taking off locking nuts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igor Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Can you split the nut with the cold chisel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raizer Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 My wheels are meant to have this style nut Instead one wheel had these And with the taper of the holes a tube socket only engaged maybe 3mm, didn't help that all front nuts were super stupidly tight (I had to stand on a 4' power bar to get them to crack) I spent hours with a narrow cold chisel that just fitted between the wheel and stud, but the nut wouldn't split it just mushed up into the taper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mof Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 So i was also going to suggest going the nex size socket down, maybe in imperial, but it sounds like it wouldn't fit in the wheel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowzer Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 How competent are you with a gas axe? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raizer Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Yeah I'm well past that stage, 13/16 fitted tight but it still could only engage a couple mm due to the taper of the recess and the nut just rounded off more. I'm not joking about how tight the front wheels were either, I split 2 21mm wheel sockets today getting the other nuts off off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raizer Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 6 minutes ago, Firetruck said: How competent are you with a gas axe? Never used one, but I'm keen to try lol Worst case scenario ATM is I get someone to hit it with a gas axe/9" grinder and I'll chuck a couple of the Altezza's wheels on the front for the weekend. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowzer Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 If you're pro enough ya can blast the stud out without damaging the wheel, but the heat will most likely still stuff the finish. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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