14 x 6 minilites knock ons
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 4:51 pm
Guys,
Can you help me here on the Plus 2S that I bought about 5 months ago. I have just been right through the 4 corners and found a front left hub with a slight dink on the thread (near end). PO did tell me about a bump here. Only found when I was drifting out the outer wheel bearing. It got stuck in the neck. Only slight damage. Anyway, I cleaned up a spare hub and used that. Looks identical. Today I grabbed a wheel to put on to check if my steering rack spacers are doing the job and are correct. I put the wheel on and tapped the spinner lightly until it became firm. I noticed that the collar was still slack and the wheel waggled.
Tried the wheel on the loose old hub and it does not clamp fully. Still some slight play.
I brought this car straight home and started on it 5 months ago, so could have missed some play.
The wheels are from Spyder in March 2003 from the reciepts. As I recall there were some problems several year back with these wheels. I did a quick check of the hubs and they are nominally the same. Without digging through a lot of old threads it looks like the spinner internal bottoms out on the hub outer edge before it clamps the wheel. I could see the marks inside. It is possible that I picked up a different wheel and spinner (as they are all off). Should have made no difference. I had been out there in the garge for a while, so not really dug too deep. Her indoors was wondering were I was.
Without me trawling can anyone shed any light. It looks like the depth of the wheel is a little shallow in the hub clamping area and not what it shoud be. Hence the spinner bottoming out. Is there a thicker modified spacer or did peolpe take a shaving off the edge of the hub. On Monday I can phone Andy but it would be nice to know before I do.
An after thought.... I cleaned both the old and new hubs really well (acid soak), so probably lost quite a few thou' in rust and old paint etc of the face of the peg drive.
Mike
Can you help me here on the Plus 2S that I bought about 5 months ago. I have just been right through the 4 corners and found a front left hub with a slight dink on the thread (near end). PO did tell me about a bump here. Only found when I was drifting out the outer wheel bearing. It got stuck in the neck. Only slight damage. Anyway, I cleaned up a spare hub and used that. Looks identical. Today I grabbed a wheel to put on to check if my steering rack spacers are doing the job and are correct. I put the wheel on and tapped the spinner lightly until it became firm. I noticed that the collar was still slack and the wheel waggled.
Tried the wheel on the loose old hub and it does not clamp fully. Still some slight play.
I brought this car straight home and started on it 5 months ago, so could have missed some play.
The wheels are from Spyder in March 2003 from the reciepts. As I recall there were some problems several year back with these wheels. I did a quick check of the hubs and they are nominally the same. Without digging through a lot of old threads it looks like the spinner internal bottoms out on the hub outer edge before it clamps the wheel. I could see the marks inside. It is possible that I picked up a different wheel and spinner (as they are all off). Should have made no difference. I had been out there in the garge for a while, so not really dug too deep. Her indoors was wondering were I was.
Without me trawling can anyone shed any light. It looks like the depth of the wheel is a little shallow in the hub clamping area and not what it shoud be. Hence the spinner bottoming out. Is there a thicker modified spacer or did peolpe take a shaving off the edge of the hub. On Monday I can phone Andy but it would be nice to know before I do.
An after thought.... I cleaned both the old and new hubs really well (acid soak), so probably lost quite a few thou' in rust and old paint etc of the face of the peg drive.
Mike