[Fot] TR3 wire wheel knockoffs

[Henry A. Morrison]

Look at the thickness of the walls of the hubs.  The early hubs were thin and as the various rally departments were snapping them off, they beefed up the hubs and at some point went to the coarse thread.....................Cheers, Henry Morrison

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Subject: Re: [Fot] TR3 wire wheel knockoffs


Phil, thanks.

   I removed the wheels today and they are bolt on adapters front and back but fine thread.

     The plot thickens!!

     Hank



Hank Giffin

757-375-1491



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Subject: Re: [Fot] TR3 wire wheel knockoffs



Hank;

I could be wrong here, but I have an early TR3 axle with the wire wheel hubs integral to the hub (as opposed to the bolt-on adapters). Those hubs appear to have a finer thread than the later bolt-on adapters. The thread change was concurrent with the switch from integral to bolt-on.

Phil

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On Sep 27, 2021, at 10:27 PM, Henry Giffin via Fot <fot at autox.team.net<mailto:fot at autox.team.net>> wrote:



There is a lot of expertise on FoT and I have a question I expect the knowledgeable ones will be able to help.

     On my early (1956) street TR3 (ex-Mike Jackson) I decided to replace the somewhat rusty wire wheel knockoffs.  I had another set of knockoffs (and hubs) from another TR3 in better shape, but the threads were more coarse and didn’t fit.  So I thought they might have been from another British car, and ordered a new set of knockoffs from Moss.  They too were too coarse.

    Can anyone confirm that the early TR3s had a finer thread on their hubs?

    I would like to keep the car original but may have to swap the hubs to use the nicer knockoffs, or chrome the fine threaded ones.  Or just live with the rust!

    Can anyone confirm the early TR3s had finer knockoff threads or is there another possible explanation?

     Thx, Hank





Hank Giffin

757-375-1491



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