Knock Off Help!
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again............... read this.
http://www.licorvette.com/pdfcatalogfiles/KOwheel.PDFTom Hendricks
Proud Member NCRS #23758
NCM Founding Member # 1143
Corvette Department Manager and
Specialist for 27 years at BUDS Chevrolet.- Top
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Tom -
Note that there are ten holes in the wheel - five smaller holes for the round drive pins on the hub adapter, and five larger holes that are clearance holes for the lug nuts that attach the adapter to the hub.
You should have special, extra-long lug nuts attaching the adapter to the hub - they prevent mis-indexing the wheel to the adapter. If you have ordinary lug nuts instead, there are ten ways to install the wheel, and five of them are wrong; if the wheel is installed incorrectly (with the drive pins in the large clearance holes and the ends of the lug studs in the small drive pin holes), the spinner will only grab 2 or 3 threads on the adapter, and the wheel WILL come off.
Photo below shows the correct "long" special lug nuts attaching the adapter to the hub; all the usual vendors have them; if you don't have them, get them.
Also, Google "M o t h e r Thumper Hammer", and get one of those too; the dinky lead hammer that came with the car is only for one-time roadside emergency use.Attached Files- Top
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Tom, make sure you get the big holes on the wheel backside aligned over the lug nuts on the knock off adapter and the small holes over the pin stud. Gary....NCRS Texas Chapter
https://www.ncrstexas.org/
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FYI
Paragon 13233K KNOCK OFF WHEEL SPINNER REMOVAL TOOL KIT $256
This tool will save the abuse to your spinner and finish.
Quality tool.- Top
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Attached Files- Top
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Tom -- do yours have the "306065" cast, as well ? I have a set of four of these, and IMO, they are pretty good, compared to originals (fins, rim lips, etc).
How the heck did you end up with FOUR left sides.
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Tom, there are NO left or right side wheels. There ARE left and right side spinners. -Clark- Top
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Tom, there are NO left or right side wheels. There ARE left and right side spinners.
Close...
Spinners AND the adaptors they mount to come in RH and LH versions. Just changing a spinner without also changing the adaptor doesn't get it...- Top
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The "screw up" is a safety issue, correct?
With all 4 spinners' OFF direction CCW, there's a danger that Tom's driver's side spinners could come loose from wheel rotation. The danger is obviously less with the addition of the safety pin, but we'd sure hate to test that idea.- Top
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