You Rock! Thanks!
I should order a handful of them.....................
Jonas Payne
PBR
Cell: (702) 358-5084
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Seigrist [mailto:healey.nut@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 6:40 PM
To: Jonas Payne
Cc: healeys@autox.team.net; healeys-bounces@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Non Healey - Dunlop 16" 54 spoke wheels
Aha -
Ok, since that didn't work, you should try Guy Broad Spares (affiliated with
Steve Norton / Cape International in the UK). They also list it in their
catalogue, pt #C5603, Item 31, second to last
page:
http://www.guybroad.co.uk/download_catalogues/pdf/XK_150_PARTS.pdf
If they send it by royal mail, you'll have it in a week or less.
Cheers,
Alan
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Jonas Payne <JPayne@thorcon.net> wrote:
> Called on that one today - they list it, but per "Bill" apparently it isn't
really there.
>
> Bummer........
>
>
> Jonas Payne
> PBR
> Cell: (702) 358-5084
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Seigrist [mailto:healey.nut@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 6:12 PM
> To: Jonas Payne
> Cc: healeys@autox.team.net; healeys-bounces@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Non Healey - Dunlop 16" 54 spoke wheels
>
> Jonas -
>
> I quick check of XKS Unlimited online shows that they have this spoke, in
stock, for $2. Part no 17-0200:
>
> https://www.xksunlimited.com/xks/merchant.ihtml?id=319&step=2
>
> I buy from XKs for my Mk IX all the time, very good supplier.
>
> Note that if your wheel had the proper rubber spoke retaining band, you
probably would not have had a puncture on the road. I highly recommend that
you fit a band, or at the very least run a few wraps of wide electrical tape
over the spoke ends in the rim, to prevent a disaster when you are cracking
the ton.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Jonas Payne <JPayne@thorcon.net> wrote:
>> While out on a spirited jaunt in my 61 Jag XK 150 last weekend we
>> lost one of the short spokes on the 16" 54 spoke Dunlops. The chain
>> reaction destroyed the tube and gutted the sidewall of the tire.
>>
>> Luckily the thing didn't blow out, but survived to go flat in my
>> driveway, so apparently it didn't happen while cracking the ton on
>> the freeway on the way home from my office.
>>
>> I have been informed by several suppliers that a replacement spoke,
>> which is valued at $2.00 in the XK's Unlimited catalog is now made of
>> "unobtanium".
>>
>> The car is now laid up for an indeterminate period of time (The
>> original
>> 50 year old spare and wheel are not roadworthy) waiting for either a
>> $2.00 replacement spoke, or $2K in new 60 spoke Dunlops, as the 54
>> spoke units are no longer made.
>>
>> If anybody knows of a source for such a spoke (or handful thereof) -
>> I'd greatly appreciate it.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>>
>> Jonas Payne
>> PBR
>> Cell: (702) 358-5084
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