discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 17y 1m 9d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 14/11/16 05:23 AM Author Share Posted 14/11/16 05:23 AM Anyone have ideas for how to cover up the rear wheel hub nut? It's a bit wild looking having the thread and all that poking right out, but of course it's way past where a centre cap would sit. It goes out like as far as the wheel nuts hahaha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,323 Member For: 19y 3m 10d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 14/11/16 06:01 AM Share Posted 14/11/16 06:01 AM 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arronm Dropping a turd Gold Donating Members 9,520 Member For: 17y 2m 6d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 14/11/16 06:30 AM Share Posted 14/11/16 06:30 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skidxr6t skids Donating Members 2,754 Member For: 12y 5d Gender: Not Telling Posted 14/11/16 06:40 AM Share Posted 14/11/16 06:40 AM get something 3d printed man! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 17y 1m 9d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 14/11/16 09:13 AM Author Share Posted 14/11/16 09:13 AM Yeah what's the go with the massive amount of spare thread on the thing? Not like Ford to give you more than they have to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arronm Dropping a turd Gold Donating Members 9,520 Member For: 17y 2m 6d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 14/11/16 03:55 PM Share Posted 14/11/16 03:55 PM 10 hours ago, -Stever- said: Anyone have ideas for how to cover up the rear wheel hub nut? It's a bit wild looking having the thread and all that poking right out, but of course it's way past where a centre cap would sit. It goes out like as far as the wheel nuts hahaha! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 17y 1m 9d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 15/11/16 05:24 AM Author Share Posted 15/11/16 05:24 AM Hahahahaha fk yeah It's my birthday tomorrow, order me those Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 17y 1m 9d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 05/12/16 03:43 PM Author Share Posted 05/12/16 03:43 PM So the new wheels went on and all was well for about a week, then this started happening I went a bit crazy chasing it, I thought I had a dead wheel bearing at first and wasted time checking it - I do have bearings on the way out in the rear as I happened to find, but eventually I found that moving the wheel between the front and back also moved the sound, so it had to be specific to the wheel or tyre in question. I started to fear a cracked rim. The set were only a grand, but a new replacement would be about $900 retail.......not gonna happen. I had plastic hub centric rings installed and changed to metal ones once they arrived (ordered before the noise started) but they didn't fix it either. It's been very embarrassing rolling around in car parks and stopping at lights with this going on...just what you don't want when you're rocking new rims! Really killed the enjoyment. Tonight I got the missus to drive it back and forth with me walking along and listening, then spraying water at the wheel, which quietened it! Went for a drive in a 100 zone nearby and it returned, but I figured I could pinpoint the noise with this technique...the sun went down but it was a nice night so I busted out the LED work lights after dinner and started trying to "surgically" spray different parts of the rim. Centre, nuts, outer lip...but now it kept squeaking. Removed the metal hub centric rings and changed to brand new wheel nuts (handy to have spares) and still squeaking... I was looking for hairline cracks in the rim when I looked at the clip on wheel weight. I'd previously tried removing the stick on weights on the inner dish but had missed this one. Even looking at it closely I could see dust was missing at the edge. Upon prying it off I saw this: Look at that mark against the rim! I'm getting excited at this point but trying not to count my chickens before they hatch. Inspecting the 15g weight I see the inside edge is verrrrrrry shiny - unlike the rest of it. I stuck the hub centric ring and original wheel nuts back in and decided I was going to back myself and torqued up the wheel nuts to spec for the test drive instead of just guessing with the breaker bar for the short test drives I'd been going on up and down the driveway. Rolled out and...nothing I'll need to get them rebalanced but a quick test drive at speeds up to 100kmh showed no perceptible change in feeling which was the icing on the cake. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tocchi Sandtrap Motorsport Donating Members 2,055 Member For: 16y 1m 9d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 06/12/16 09:21 PM Share Posted 06/12/16 09:21 PM get something 3d printed man!Been thinking the same for my wheels Just need the time to design something on cad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 17y 1m 9d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 07/12/16 05:13 AM Author Share Posted 07/12/16 05:13 AM Do want a high end 3D printer...would be awesome creating your own spare parts like that. I've also fitted new fog lights to the car, but I've misplaced the plastic covers that I bought so they don't get cracked like all the last ones have. Living on the edge! While doing that I changed the lower support bracket for the cold side pipe so it lines up better with the fixed upper pipe section, now it lines up again and the silicone joiner doesn't look like it's about to rip open 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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