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Changing/Installing wheel centers to outers??

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G. L. Perry

09-29-2003 09:36:46




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I can't find 36" wheels for my R that are close to me, and too expensive to ship. Miller tires offers outer wheels in 36". I want to mount thinner tires, like 10" or 11.2 size. I'm being told to use the 9" wheel. The 9" is thinner and lighter and cheaper than the 10" or 11" offered there. My centers are about 34 and 3/16" wide measured with tape. They are out of wheel now. The ones at Millers are listed as 34.084 inside where centers mount. That is close to 1/8" but more than 1/16 as I'm figureing. Zat mean, I can't use them or do I grind or modify my centers, or are they really OK as is or what??? Anyone ever do this center switching and can tell me about it. Pullers are said to do this often. Can I just use hex bolts? I'm told an old innertube or just Duct tape over the bolts works to keep tube off the heads. Any opinions? I dont have an old tube now, junked most of them as full of fluid and messy. I'm thinking of ordering one wheel and experimenting first before I order two.

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Bob

10-02-2003 12:08:40




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 Re: Changing/Installing wheel centers to outers?? in reply to G. L. Perry, 09-29-2003 09:36:46  
Did one back in spring, no problem on size of rim to center. Drove center into rim with block of wood and big hammer. Used rivets heated with torch flatten out wrapped with duck tape.



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Kelvin

09-29-2003 18:09:45




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 Re: Changing/Installing wheel centers to outers?? in reply to G. L. Perry, 09-29-2003 09:36:46  
I used Miller's 8" x 36" rims on a '40R. I did not install them myself, so don't know the particulars, but they're on there.
The '40 R wheels were solid round disk. I would think that if your disks have 4 lobes or points where they mount to the rim, the wheels would be even easier to mount.
p.s. '67 or earlier VW rims make great R front rims, about 1" wider than stock, though.



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