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  1. 28th June 2012, 07:24 PM #11
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    When I bought my old 88 model, it had been fitted with a set of hurricanes with big positive offset. They looked great but the on-road handling was dangerous- very twitchy and wanting to oversteer on gentle bends at highway speeds. It felt much like the effect of loss of camber with a big spring lift. I replaced them with a set of standard alloy rims which solved the handling problem instantly. There is a reason why large increases to track width are illegal.
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  2. 29th June 2012, 08:18 AM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by MR LR jnr. View Post
    From the photo you gave in the OP it looks like there are tapers for the nuts??? Is that right? If it is then they need taper nuts too and this is what locate the wheel on the hub, so no hub-centric is needed.

    If you look at hub-centric alloys you'll see they have no tapers for the nuts, the nuts just hold them on and transfer the torque as they locate on the hub.

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    The nuts on mine incorporate a threaded sleeve part that sits in the holes in the rims over the studs, with a washer that sits in the flat recess in the rim..........that's the slightly rusty looking bits in the OP pic. They aren't tapered.

    The washers are essential to stop the nuts chewing out the alloy when you do them up.

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  3. 30th June 2012, 10:28 PM #13
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    Quote Originally Posted by 350RRC View Post
    The nuts on mine incorporate a threaded sleeve part that sits in the holes in the rims over the studs, with a washer that sits in the flat recess in the rim..........that's the slightly rusty looking bits in the OP pic. They aren't tapered.

    The washers are essential to stop the nuts chewing out the alloy when you do them up.

    cheers, DL
    That's interesting, wonder how they actually locate then, do you have any balancing problems with them?
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