something I don't understand...
when people mention the idea of the knock offs being on the wrong side
of the car...
how can you do this?
Wouldn't the hub itself have to be on the wrong side for the threads to
match up?
Paul Tegler wizardz@toad.net http://www.teglerizer.com
1973 MGBGT - daily driver
http://www.teglerizer.com/mgstuff/ob_description.htm
1978 Spitfire - in superb Shape
http://www.teglerizer.com/triumphstuff/spit78.htm
1973 Round wheel Arch wire wheel Midget
http://www.teglerizer.com/midgetstuff/index.html
-----Original Message-----
From: L. Metelko <lmtr4a@ctlnet.com>
To: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 8:54 PM
Subject: Losing wire wheel
>
>Tom:
>
> One lister thought that worn splines had caused the loss of your wire
>wheel. A badly worn spline will only allow the wheel to spin freely on the
>hub but not seperate from the hub. If you or your mechanic had tightly
>secured the knock-off the only way it could have backed off is if it was on
>the wrong side of the car. The "undo" directional arrow must point in the
>direction of foward travel. If not the knock-off will eventually back
itself
>off the hub. The scarey part is there is another wheel on the other side
>that will do the same thing because a car has two "right" hubs and two
>"lefts.
>
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