Knock off wheel spinner

[Terry M.]

Re: Knock off wheel spinner

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I highly recomment this 7-pound replaceable-face hammer. Bill Sangray wrote a story for The Restorer about it. It is not inexpensive, but then neither is having one of your wheels pass you on the road. Page down tot he bottom of the page in the link.

[Clark K.]

Re: Knock off wheel spinner

Rudd, you can drill and tap the hub for a set screw. Reinstall the knock off wheel and make sure you have the big holes over the lug nuts and small holes over the pins. Tighten the spinner with your lead hammer multiple times with the wheel on the ground. Drive around a block or two. Stop re-hammer. Repeat this process a couple of times. Then installed the set screw from the inside of the hub. Last use silicon to attach the cap. This process works great on the old Western Wheels. Gary....

I agree with Gary. My Western wheels have been modified with drilled and tapped threads for a set screw. I never use the "anti-theft pins" even though the hub has the grooves for them. I use anti-seize on the hub threads and the set screw threads. I have never had to retighten a wheel after installing them. I put 'em on TIGHT! Once tight, I use a black marker "line" on the hub/spinner combination for ease of visual inspection.

I have found that a tiny amount of petroleum jelly (on the edges of the cap that snaps into the spinner) works great on the center caps. Perhaps Gary uses silicone jelly, not aerosol silicone. -Clark

[Wayne M.]

Re: Knock off wheel spinner

..... My Western wheels have been modified with drilled and tapped threads for a set screw. I never use the "anti-theft pins" even though the hub has the grooves for them. ....

Clark -- by "set screw" do you mean a hole drilled in the spinner (near the words "OFF -->" ? I have an early set of K-H Westerns and one spinner has 2 holes, and the other has a single hole; two spinners have no holes , obviously not the original supplier.

[Wayne P.]

Re: Knock off wheel spinner

The two spinners with the holes probably were lock wired for racing .
Just a guess

[Clark K.]

Re: Knock off wheel spinner

Clark -- by "set screw" do you mean a hole drilled in the spinner (near the words "OFF -->" ? I have an early set of K-H Westerns and one spinner has 2 holes, and the other has a single hole; two spinners have no holes , obviously not the original supplier.

No, do not drill the spinner. My hub (hub adapter?) was tapped and threaded for a set screw by some previous owner. When the wheel is tight enough, I take an Allen wrench and tighten the set screw into the inside of the spinner.

For your car to have this feature, you will have to take the four wheel hubs (the part that the spinner threads onto) to a machine shop to have the set screw threads put into it. You then have to remember to remove/loosen the set screw before you hammer the wheels off or on. -Clark