[Healeys] The mystery of the 100-6 Wheels

[Mark LaPierre]

Wow, what a drastic measure that PO went through.   You may want to consider 
just keeping the set up you have.  The cost of new splines and wheels is not 
a cheep investment by any means especially if your car needs work in other 
areas.

  Then you need to check the truing , spoke condition ya da, ya da, ya da,. 
on a periodic basis.

Used is not a good idea cause you just don't really know what the part has 
been through in the past.
Using used splines with new wheels is a real toss up.  Not recommended

Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Woods" <fogbro1 at comcast.net>
To: <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 4:44 PM
Subject: [Healeys] The mystery of the 100-6 Wheels


> List,
>
> It might be recalled that I measured 4.5" bolt centers on the steel rear
> wheels of my newly acquired BN6. They are supposed to be at 5" centers as 
> I
> learned from this List. That mystery was solved when I removed the r/r 
> wheel
> to discover a 5 bolt, 5" to 4.5" adapter.
> At that time I still beloved the car originally had steel wheels, not 
> wires.
>
> Yesterday, I removed the r/f wheel. It too has a 5 bolt pattern on a 4.5" 
> B.C.
> Beneath it I found another adapter, only this time it was designed to 
> adapt
> the 4 stud, 4.5" B.C. Healey pattern to  a 5 stud, 4.5" wheel. Protruding 
> thru
> the center is a spline which extends to the grease cup. I'd seen the 
> spline
> earlier, but it didn't register that someone had cut the original Healey
> splined hub so that it didn't protrude beyond the after market steel 
> wheel.
>
> So now I've come to believe that this car was originally furnished with 
> wire
> wheels and that someone had gone to great lengths to fit steel wheel to 
> it,
> wheels with a 5 bolt pattern at a 4.5" bolt circle.
>
> Anyone got a good, used set of splined hubs for a BN6 for sale?
>
> Ed Woods
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