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Re: Widening Wheels?

To: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu>, autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Widening Wheels?
From: bruce haden <bhaden@ucsd.edu>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:32:37 -0700
At 10:33 AM 8/31/99 -0400, R. John Lye wrote:
>Hi all,
>       I know that this thread went around a year or two ago, and
>I thought that I had saved the information, but I guess I didn't.
>So, sorry for the repeat.  Anyway, do any of you know of sources
>for getting steel wheels widened?  This could either be by splitting
>the outer rim and welding a spacer in, or better yet, by welding the
>wheel center into a new rim?  This is for an MGA Twin Cam which uses
>rare, pin drive wheels so buying aftermarket wheels is not a
>possibility.

I don't have specifics, but this doesn't sound like it couldn't
be handled by any COMPETENT machine/welding shop. Emphasis on Competent.


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