Glen
Before you have someone weld in your Austin centers to the Vega rims,
make sure your wheel guy checks that the Vega rims are not out of round.
When I bought my Vega wheels at a specialty junkyard (wheels & tires
only), we went thru about 9 rims to find 5 that were true.
Easy test - an axle was set up on bench with measured marks in
background (I forget gradiations - 1/16inches?) - if wheel is out of
round you can see amount of wobble when spinning wheel.
Let us know how the rim & center swap works out. I might want to do the
same with my wheels.
Regards,
Jim Rogers
San Juan Capistrano, CA
Glen Byrns wrote:
>I'd given up finding a Chevy Vega at the scrap yards, and tried a new
>approach. I checked Craiglist and found people selling Vegas. Who better to
>have the stock wheels sitting in a backyard? Scored a set of 4 for $50 on the
>first try. Now I can get the centers from the Austin wheels punched out and
>welded into the Vega hoops with corrected offset and have a set of 13x5 rims
>that will still accept the Flying "A" hubcaps.
>Beats hell out of the $500 for a set of modern day minilites that would look a
>bit too modern on the Austin.
>
>Sorry Chuck C., I've decided to keep the A35 and hot rod it for myself. Now
>that the brakes work, its too much fun to let go of.
>
>Glen
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