You do have a point.
I went back and looked at them again. Looked at them from the back tis
time. The marks I saw on the inner part of the oval are there, but from
the back, it does look like it was part of the casting. So maybe what I
thought I saw wasn't what I really saw.
But I still can't get the darned things to bolt up...
-=Chris
<-----Original Message----->
From: William Thompson
Sent: 5/29/2005 1:42:54 PM
To: cbking@alum.rpi.edu
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Western alloys dont fit!!
but if they are machined (butchered) to fit on a sprite, arent they
really
F"ED up for what ever they WERE for now too?
On 5/29/05, Chris King wrote:
>
> Of course, this is after I bought and mounted the tires. I test fit
the
> rims without lugs, and they slid on, and looked OK, so I figured I was
> fine. After all, the guy I bought these from said they came off a
Jensen
> Healey, which has a 4 x 4" pattern.
>
> So now I have the correct shouldered lug nuts, and then I install one,
> the lug stud 180 degrees opposite it is nearly touching the oval hole.
> No way to get the nut over it. Grrr.
>
> On closer inspection, it looks like these rims were originally for a 4
x
> 4 1/4" pattern, and someone machined the holes oval. There doesn't
look
> like there's enough meat left between the oval lug holes and the large
> center hub to continue machining the holes inward. Maybe 1/8" is left.
>
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