CapricornDreaming
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G’day gentlemen,
I’m faced with a dilemma, which you gentlemen of experience may be able to resolve for me. I have an Isuzu NPS300, and like me, it’s getting old, it was new in 1996.
More than twenty years ago, I had custom wheels made for it. The plan was to stay at 17 inch wheels and just weld my centres into wider tubeless rims with adjusted offset. The wheel-maker— this is before ATV, Warrior, and all those trendy companies started up— rang me to say that the (tubeless) rims wouldn’t fit over the brake drums, and should he turn the brake drums down to fit the rims. I didn’t like the sound of that idea too much, so we went up a size to 17.5 inch rims. That severely limited my choice of tyres, although Michelins XZY (XZY is short for expensive) do the job.
Now, though, a second rim has cracked, for the second time. I’m very aware that welding rims is circumspect, but they were welded in the first instance, and a wheel repair firm in Adelaide, is prepared to do the job— or at least look at it, in a week's time.
Any positive advice that anybody can share in that regard (repairs to cracked steel rims) would be welcome; I’m currently on the road, at Overland Corner in SA. I’m mobile but need my wheel fixed. I have a related question, about replacing them all, which I’ll spin off in another topic.
Thanks in anticipation.
Geoff.
I’m faced with a dilemma, which you gentlemen of experience may be able to resolve for me. I have an Isuzu NPS300, and like me, it’s getting old, it was new in 1996.
More than twenty years ago, I had custom wheels made for it. The plan was to stay at 17 inch wheels and just weld my centres into wider tubeless rims with adjusted offset. The wheel-maker— this is before ATV, Warrior, and all those trendy companies started up— rang me to say that the (tubeless) rims wouldn’t fit over the brake drums, and should he turn the brake drums down to fit the rims. I didn’t like the sound of that idea too much, so we went up a size to 17.5 inch rims. That severely limited my choice of tyres, although Michelins XZY (XZY is short for expensive) do the job.
Now, though, a second rim has cracked, for the second time. I’m very aware that welding rims is circumspect, but they were welded in the first instance, and a wheel repair firm in Adelaide, is prepared to do the job— or at least look at it, in a week's time.
Any positive advice that anybody can share in that regard (repairs to cracked steel rims) would be welcome; I’m currently on the road, at Overland Corner in SA. I’m mobile but need my wheel fixed. I have a related question, about replacing them all, which I’ll spin off in another topic.
Thanks in anticipation.
Geoff.
