In a message dated 11/25/2008 10:07:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
mhooper@digiscreen.ca writes:
I ran into an odd problem seemingly rust related (on a totally un-rusted
car).
I jacked up the first corner, undid all five wheel bolts on the first rim
and
was then still completely unable to remove the rim by hand. Kicking very hard
did nothing at all, the rim seemed welded to the car. It took a 10-pound
sledge, a baulk of firewood and about 10 good hard whacks around the edge of
the rim to have it suddenly spring free, seemingly perfectly fine. The metal
surface (the centre of the brake disc) the rim was bolted to was indeed
lightly rusted, but not badly. I had to repeat the same performance for each
rim on the car.
==AM==
I've had this happen a lot in recent years with various cars and regular
steel wheels. Hondas, Toyotas, and even a '91 Ford Explorer, where the front
wheels had the nasty habit of taking off the auto-locking hubs with them. On
all
of these, where the problem seemed to be was in the very centers of the
wheels, which seem to be more "hub-centric" as opposed to the lug-centric
wheels
we're used to on Triumphs.
I've taken to lightly greasing the inside "rim" of the center of the wheel
before replacing it. How long-term a solution this is, I don't yet know. I've
also learned just how to sit on the ground, stretch out my legs and kick the
snot out of the tire and wheel to get a stubborn one loose (except during the
last months of the Explorer, as it sat half-dead in my yard. There was at
least one wheel I never did get off again before some sucker offered me a
small
amount of cash for that rusted beast)!
--Andy Mace
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*Man: Well, no ... It's not so much of a jet, it's more your, er, Triumph
Herald engine with wings.
-- Cut-price Airlines Sketch, Monty Python's Flying Circus (22)
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