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Title: Centre Caps & BRM wheels (copies) - How do you get the flat centre caps to fit?! Post by: Deanodynosaurs on February 05, 2013, 14:34:18 pm Cant get my head around this!! All the photos of other people cars I have seen that are running BRM's have flat ali centre cap on the front wheels.
I have fitted a set of MWS BRM copies on my car (before anyone goes on about MWS, they were cheap!!). However there is no way a flat centre cap will fit! The grease cap, which is needed for the speedo cable, sits way to far out?! The cars a 58 bug, on standard drums. Just wondered how everybody else seems to manage to fit flat centre caps?! Spacers? No grease caps? diffrent grease caps? Dude 8) Title: Re: Centre Caps & BRM wheels (copies) - How do you get the flat centre caps to fit?! Post by: Frodo on February 05, 2013, 15:03:35 pm On my 56 I drilled a hole in the cap for the speedo-cable. Works for me and isn't very visible.
Title: Re: Centre Caps & BRM wheels (copies) - How do you get the flat centre caps to fit?! Post by: Deanodynosaurs on February 05, 2013, 16:11:48 pm On my 56 I drilled a hole in the cap for the speedo-cable. Works for me and isn't very visible. Thats a cool idea. :) Does the grease get thrown out much onto the wheel? Dude 8) Title: Re: Centre Caps & BRM wheels (copies) - How do you get the flat centre caps to fit?! Post by: Donny B. on February 05, 2013, 17:47:02 pm Someone actually makes larger caps to clear on link pin front ends.
http://www.socalautoparts.com/product_info.php/empi/center-cap-brm-wheels-tall-polished-p-16258 Title: Re: Centre Caps & BRM wheels (copies) - How do you get the flat centre caps to fit?! Post by: Deanodynosaurs on February 05, 2013, 17:55:57 pm Someone actually makes larger caps to clear on link pin front ends. http://www.socalautoparts.com/product_info.php/empi/center-cap-brm-wheels-tall-polished-p-16258 Hi Donny, I've seen this, and am actually running them at the moment, although i have cut them down a bit to get them in a bit. It just that i've seen plently of K&L pin car with the flat caps, and just wanna know how they do it. Perhaps there running diffrent spindles or something........... Dude 8) Title: Re: Centre Caps & BRM wheels (copies) - How do you get the flat centre caps to fit?! Post by: dannyboy on February 05, 2013, 18:46:27 pm Someone actually makes larger caps to clear on link pin front ends. http://www.socalautoparts.com/product_info.php/empi/center-cap-brm-wheels-tall-polished-p-16258 Hi Donny, I've seen this, and am actually running them at the moment, although i have cut them down a bit to get them in a bit. It just that i've seen plently of K&L pin car with the flat caps, and just wanna know how they do it. Perhaps there running diffrent spindles or something........... Dude 8) Title: Re: Centre Caps & BRM wheels (copies) - How do you get the flat centre caps to fit?! Post by: Deanodynosaurs on February 05, 2013, 18:51:14 pm Someone actually makes larger caps to clear on link pin front ends. http://www.socalautoparts.com/product_info.php/empi/center-cap-brm-wheels-tall-polished-p-16258 Hi Donny, I've seen this, and am actually running them at the moment, although i have cut them down a bit to get them in a bit. It just that i've seen plently of K&L pin car with the flat caps, and just wanna know how they do it. Perhaps there running diffrent spindles or something........... Dude 8) PMSL!! Danny your a knob!! ;D Dude 8) Title: Re: Centre Caps & BRM wheels (copies) - How do you get the flat centre caps to fit?! Post by: Frodo on February 05, 2013, 19:00:17 pm On my 56 I drilled a hole in the cap for the speedo-cable. Works for me and isn't very visible. Thats a cool idea. :) Does the grease get thrown out much onto the wheel? Dude 8) No problem with that after one summer of driving. Title: Re: Centre Caps & BRM wheels (copies) - How do you get the flat centre caps to fit?! Post by: JS on February 05, 2013, 20:16:59 pm Hit grease cap with hammer until center cap fits. No joke.
Title: Re: Centre Caps & BRM wheels (copies) - How do you get the flat centre caps to fit?! Post by: Roman on February 05, 2013, 21:55:45 pm I first grinded down the spindle so it was flush with the outer nut, then I cut down and rewelded the grease cap and filed down the speedo cable so it was max 1 mm outside the retaining clip.
It was about 3 hours work but it was plenty of room. Title: Re: Centre Caps & BRM wheels (copies) - How do you get the flat centre caps to fit?! Post by: Jason Foster on February 06, 2013, 05:15:52 am Different wheels same scnerio for me..I run Flat Four einkei wheels with L&B flat center caps and I hammered down my dust cap and ground the tip of my speedo cable to fit.
Title: Re: Centre Caps & BRM wheels (copies) - How do you get the flat centre caps to fit?! Post by: Fiatdude on February 06, 2013, 12:36:16 pm wheel spacer?
Title: Re: Centre Caps & BRM wheels (copies) - How do you get the flat centre caps to fit?! Post by: John Palmer on February 07, 2013, 01:16:02 am Hammer down the dust cap till it hits the end of the spindle.
Then push the speedo cable "up the housing". Then grind the end of the speedo cable, "past the circlip grove, till it is flush with the edge of the dust cap. It's been working that way on our 1960 Bug for twelve years, the speedo cable has never come out of the dust cap. Title: Re: Centre Caps & BRM wheels (copies) - How do you get the flat centre caps to fit?! Post by: pre-cal on February 11, 2013, 00:59:24 am Like JS says further up...giving the cap a good punch should do the trick!
I used to run Porsche A-brakes and BRMs on my old car with no problems at all :) Paul Title: Re: Centre Caps & BRM wheels (copies) - How do you get the flat centre caps to fit?! Post by: aussie on February 11, 2013, 04:21:21 am Hit grease cap with hammer until center cap fits. No joke. What he said ^^^^. Did the same on mine to run flat centre caps on Flat 4 Fuchs. There are some pics of what I did in my thread somewhere http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=75753 |