EURON8 Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 You should be able to get some hubcentric rings to suit the wheels and diff. You get some made. 1 Quote
sr2 Posted September 14, 2015 Author Posted September 14, 2015 You should be able to get some hubcentric rings to suit the wheels and diff. You get some made. Thanks for your input mate. love your Lada thread, when are we going to see the twin cam Fiat transplant? I think I have 3 options; make a thin hubcentric spacer, make a hubcentric bush that fits in the middle of each wheel or simply run them 'as is", as many cars have and still do. I've recently upgraded my little old bench Myford to a 10" Emco lathe so it's easy to turn up either spacers or bushes. 1 Quote
ajg193 Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 I reckon it should be illegal to not have your wheels hubcentric. Just make some rings or spacers. 1 Quote
Benno Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 I reckon it should be illegal to not have your wheels hubcentric. Just make some rings or spacers. It is, you'd never get a cert without hubcentric adapters or similar 1 Quote
sr2 Posted September 15, 2015 Author Posted September 15, 2015 It is, you'd never get a cert without hubcentric adapters or similar Apparently not so; it looks like only spacers or adapters are required to be wheel/hub-centric, i.e. there is no requirement for a wheel to have a hubcentric fit on the hub. "Rob July 19, 2015 at 10:31 pm I want to fit a set of wheels which are perfectly compatible in size, width & offset – however the centre bore size of the wheels is 57mm & the car has only 54mm centre hub size. Is that 3mm “gap” legal? Do I have to fit some sort of ring to fill in the gap? johnbrett July 20, 2015 at 1:39 pm Hi Rob- the wheel needs to be centered on the hub, but if there are no spacers fitted, the tapered wheel nuts center in the tapered holes in the wheels and serve that function. If spacers are fitted, this introduces bending loads on the wheel studs, so then a centering ring is needed. So the answer is- if there are no spacers fitted, a centering ring is not required. Hope this helps, John" (Copy and pasted from http://lowvolumevehicle.co.nz/2012/02/wheel-spacers-faqs/ ) Interesting debate, at this stage I'm erring towards turning up alloy "locator rings' if there's enough internal radius on the rims center bore to keep them in place. 1 Quote
Shakotom Posted September 15, 2015 Posted September 15, 2015 ^do that, make the locater rings Even if it's for your own piece of mind Quote
yoeddynz Posted September 15, 2015 Posted September 15, 2015 I just caught up with reading the thread and its been very enjoyable!!! I bet that like us here reading it you are very glad you took photos of it all those years ago. Nowadays with every dog and his man having a camera on their phone its almost a case of too many photos (at least of cats..) but I look back to when I was getting into cars when digital cameras were not about and I wish I had taken more photos. But at $20-25 to get a film developed it was an expensive thing. 2 Quote
Beaver Posted September 15, 2015 Posted September 15, 2015 It is, you'd never get a cert without hubcentric adapters or similar Not quite, only needed when using spacers. Edit: what sr2 said in the next post. 1 Quote
sr2 Posted September 17, 2015 Author Posted September 17, 2015 oh hey, I know you! Who...me.....that incident with the vaseline, the wet suit and the tethered goat was nothing more than a nasty malicious rumor! (Ducks for cover!). 2 Quote
fuel Posted September 17, 2015 Posted September 17, 2015 You weren't meant to tell anyone about that! Quote
Dell'orto Posted September 27, 2015 Posted September 27, 2015 Great read, amazing to think you still owned the car after 40+ years! Quote
tedidesign Posted September 29, 2015 Posted September 29, 2015 Triple webers on a red motor. The sound of the 60's, great memories. Quote
KKtrips Posted October 1, 2015 Posted October 1, 2015 I heard you like vices yo - so you put a vice in a vice - that's some inception shit man. LOL (PS - vice looks SWEET in resplendent blue) I am also liking where you are going with triple carbs. Quote
CUL8R Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 How much soda do you tend to put in per litres? Just a little 6v/12v charger I presume? do tell more, quite interesting indeed! Quote
sr2 Posted January 19, 2016 Author Posted January 19, 2016 How much soda do you tend to put in per litres? Just a little 6v/12v charger I presume? do tell more, quite interesting indeed! I use approx 1 teaspoon per 2 litres of water, using a stronger solution has little or no improved effect. The charger is one of my old-school "rescues", it has the original transformer but I replaced the rectifying circuit with a Jaycar unit, it's capable of around 6 amps at 13.5 volts (ish!). The max I've got out of it removing rust is around 4.5 amps. You end up with a black film where the rust was but it's easily removed with a wire brush or wire wool or you can just paint over it with an etch primer. The sacrificial scrap steel you connect the +ve to doesn't last long and ends up plated with rusty crud. I think the advantage electrolysis has over phosphoric based treatments is that it's less invasive i.e. you don't need to worry about damage to threads and machined surfaces. Have a play with it and let us know what you think. Quote
bathcollector Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 Apparently not so; it looks like only spacers or adapters are required to be wheel/hub-centric, i.e. there is no requirement for a wheel to have a hubcentric fit on the hub. "Rob July 19, 2015 at 10:31 pm I want to fit a set of wheels which are perfectly compatible in size, width & offset – however the centre bore size of the wheels is 57mm & the car has only 54mm centre hub size. Is that 3mm “gap” legal? Do I have to fit some sort of ring to fill in the gap? johnbrett July 20, 2015 at 1:39 pm Hi Rob- the wheel needs to be centered on the hub, but if there are no spacers fitted, the tapered wheel nuts center in the tapered holes in the wheels and serve that function. If spacers are fitted, this introduces bending loads on the wheel studs, so then a centering ring is needed. So the answer is- if there are no spacers fitted, a centering ring is not required. Hope this helps, John" (Copy and pasted from http://lowvolumevehicle.co.nz/2012/02/wheel-spacers-faqs/ ) Interesting debate, at this stage I'm erring towards turning up alloy "locator rings' if there's enough internal radius on the rims center bore to keep them in place. John...Brett ???????? Quote
sr2 Posted January 19, 2016 Author Posted January 19, 2016 John...Brett ???????? Who's John Brett? Forgive me if I'm missing the obvious but after living through the 70's I'm a little slow. (They say if you can't remember the 70's you weren't there, I know what they mean!). Quote
Nominal Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 John Brett is a well-known LVVTA hater. The advice above is correct though - wheels do not need to be hub-centric generally. Quote
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