Thank you
Perhaps a bad choice of words; what I meant was that, firmly grabbing
opposite sides of the tyre and trying to rotate it there is about 3/8 - 1/4
in play.
Yes spinners are free on the hubs and thread really easily all the way to
the home position.
Will check thread pitch with the old hubs.
rg
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From: sentenac.rw@gmail.com
Sent: Monday, November 2, 2015 10:27 AM
To: Roger Grace
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Splines and Wheels
Roger,
Sounds like time to eliminate some possibilities:
If you remove the wheels and just try to thread the spinners onto the
hubs is there any difficulty beyond ordinary friction of threads? With
a bit of light oil you should be able to turn the spinners fully onto
the hubs.
Probably worth measuing the pitch of the threads on the rear hubs and
compare with ones on front. Maybe the American machinist cut metric
threads on the new hubs or something. Nobody uses inches any more,
you know ;-)
I am guessing that what you are labelling as peripheral play is motion
of the wheels toward and away from the hubs when there should be none.
Are you sure that the free play is between the wheels and the hubs and
not somewhere else in the rear end, such as between hubs and brake
drums or brake drums and axle?
I don't know why your old spinners wouldn't fit the new hubs if the
new hubs were made right.
I don't know what MWS wheels are, who makes them. The ones from India
that Moss sells have been quite good for a number of years now.
I'd compare how your spinners fit onto your old wheels and onto the
new ones, off of the car so you can just lay the spinner onto the
wheel. If there is a gross difference, maybe your new wheels are at
fault.
Good luck,
-Roland
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 09:47:03 -0800, you wrote:
>I have just installed new MWS 5.5in 72 spoke wheels and new Moss (USA
>made) splined hubs on the rear of my BJ8. Also fitted new turret lug nuts.
>I am not happy with the fitment as have to hammer the hell out of the
>spinner to take up the peripheral play in the wheels. What gives ? Spoken
>to both MWS and Moss and they are at a loss. I can confirm that the hub
>mounting studs are not touching the inside of the wheel and that the
>spinners are not bottoming. Switched front to back spinners and no change.
>Spinner thread ID seems to be within spec. at 2.194 in Now thinking about
>new spinners .. ?? Are there perhaps spinners with a different taper .. ?
>Anyone had similar issues ??
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