Unmatched wire wheels and hubs

[A TR7 16V]

There's no chance to get to the nuts with the wheel on.

Also though more about the open-ended torque wrench problem and found a crows foot 11/16ths that solves some of the problem - now I need to work out a) if that causes an offset in the torque setting and b) if so whether it's big enough to matter.

Maybe the bar only needs one bit of tube to go over an 11/16ths nut and will jam between the nut, an unsplined bit of the hub adaptor, and the road. Maybe a long enough screwdriver, with the blade in the gap between nut and adaptor and the handle on the road. Not sure that's a good idea really: there's jury rigging and there's bodging.

Graham

[A TR7 16V]

BTW, the wheel don't go on far enough volte-face to engage the splines well enough to be worth the risk of damaging them.

Graham

[glang]

Cant see any other way to do it then: wide blade screwdriver as you say or even better a pry bar and make sure you carry it in the car.....

[A TR7 16V]

Quoted from glang-

and make sure you carry it in the car.....

Where else would I keep the toolkit. She's made it clear she's put off by me keeping me spanners on the kitchen table, as per Stan from Dinnerladies.

Graham

[glang]

Its true the more you keep in the boot of a Herald/Vitesse the more chance youve got of keeping it shiney side up but it certainly doesnt help performance or fuel consumption.....

[nang]

Fair enough, have no problems with hubs etc. It's the spacers that would concern me along with the taper of the nuts. Are the tapers matching.?

Tony.

[A TR7 16V]

Yes, the tapers match – it's a standard 60° countersink, like on the original wheels.

As to the spacers: Like I said, the change in load on the bearing from a 6mm spacer is going to be about the same as going to a 1/2 inc wider wheel, which also moves the centroid of the road to wheel contact area out by about 1/4 inch. And people go to 5J5 Sprint wheels, which adds an inch to the moment on the bearing.

What I didn't like was that, with the spacer, the studs were short in the nuts. But that only showed that neither spacers nor shorter studs were needed.

Graham