David,
In this instance, a welch plug is a circular flat piece of metal with a
slight dome to the middle. It fits inside the splined wire wheel hub
outboard of the end of the axle shaft.
You install it by placing it inside the hub and giving it a good whack with a
drift, like a 1/2 in. drive extension. It's basically the same as a freeze
plug for a motor. There is a machined slot around the inner circumference of
the hub where it will stay once driven in. I don't know where you could get
one now, all I had to do was to go to my friendly JRT dealer who had them in
stock (I said it was 20 yrs ago). You could try bringing your hub to a local
auto supply, or perhaps MiniMania or AH Spares. The easier solution would be
to find some rubber balls that fit tightly inside the hub and silicone them
in.
HTH
Rick
In a message dated 10/13/02 11:55:18 AM, davriker@pacbell.net writes:
<<I think I just learned something here. Where do you get a Welch Plug?
Never heard of one before, but when I assembled a NOS axle and NOS hub for
my car last week, I didn't use one. Never dawned on me that axle fluid
would leak. How do you install a new one?
Having just pressed the new axle and hub together, this idea for making a
longer wire wheel axle had occurred to me. There is alot of axle pressed
into the hub, and pressing it out by 5/8" would do the trick.
David Riker
63 Falcon
70 Torino
74 Midget
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