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- Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:36 pm
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: Reversing rims
- Replies: 14
- Views: 33858
Very few steel wheels, if any, sit flush with the hub. If you look closely at their design there is normally a raised ring that holds most of the knave plate slightly clear of the hub. This means that when you tighten the wheel nuts you are actually flexing the knave plate inwards and that slight &...
- Tue Jan 27, 2009 1:10 pm
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: Reversing rims
- Replies: 14
- Views: 33858
Re: Reversing rims
Hi a couple of thoughts on this 1 Have you tried fitting a wheel / tyre reversed to check clearence on frnt/rear, you only need to try in your drive/a car park I suspect that you may have clearence problems 2 On vans with twin rear wheels the inner wheel is reversed, to locate the inside wheel taper...
- Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:37 pm
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: welding a 3.9 efi rangie
- Replies: 9
- Views: 27559
Re: welding a 3.9 efi rangie
advice reqd please . any thing further to disconnect , having disconnected the battery and alternator? I am going to weld the rear cross member and brackets for my new rear bumper . The best thing to do is to disconnect the battery then join the positive /neg terminals together then earth this junc...
- Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:46 pm
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: Tubular Front bumper legality
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10183
Tubular Front bumper legality
I am fed up with straightening my front bumper I am looking at making a tubular one mounted on/above the chassis, but when I looked at this about 6 years ago my insurance company stated that should I hit a pedestrial causing injury I could be liable as the front profile was not as came out of the fa...
- Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:23 am
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: removing downpipe
- Replies: 8
- Views: 28316
- Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:06 am
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: removing downpipe
- Replies: 8
- Views: 28316
- Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:36 am
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: removing downpipe
- Replies: 8
- Views: 28316
Hi I have checked the turbo to pipe stud length on a spare turbo it is 25mm which may mean a standard socket is too short Are you attacking these nuts from under the engine using a couple of ½ inch extension bars there is a straight run in doing this I found that most sockets have a 2/3 mill chamfer...
- Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:44 am
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: removing downpipe
- Replies: 8
- Views: 28316
- Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:37 am
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: removing downpipe
- Replies: 8
- Views: 28316
- Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:29 pm
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: turbo boost question - 300tdi
- Replies: 9
- Views: 39333
- Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:56 am
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: turbo boost question - 300tdi
- Replies: 9
- Views: 39333