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Re: Wire Wheel Adaptors

To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Wire Wheel Adaptors
From: Scott Tilton <sdtilton@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:27:16 -0700 (PDT)
--- Mike Rose <lytspeed@hotmail.com> wrote:
> The studs that are used to mount the wire wheel splined extensions are about
> 5/16" shorter than those used to mount the disc wheels.  Also, the nut is
> thinner than the nut used for disc wheels.  If you don't use shorter studs
> and thinner nuts, the stud and/or nut will contact the inside of the wire
> wheel and not allow it to seat properly on the adaptor.  This is not good
> because the wheel will be contacting only at four points (the studs and the
> nuts) instead of the whole circumference of the adaptor.  I have seen this on
> a car and it makes four fairly nasty "gouges" on the inside of the wheel hub.
>  
> 
> Mike Rose
> '59 TR3A
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