Thread: What did you do on your Perentie Today.

Originally Posted by dingsy

There's a PTO winch for sale on gumtree at the moment if you're after one. A bit pricey though.

Yeah I have seen it. It would be more cost effective for me to go hydraulic then to get that PTO sent over here

Originally Posted by dingsy

There's a PTO winch for sale on gumtree at the moment if you're after one. A bit pricey though.

Yes, but then the census will be wrong for an FFR with winch.

Got new tyres and rims fitted. Finally. My old ones were shot. The tyres had started 'egging' on the sidewalls. Then the rim supplier didn't bother to tell my tyre guy that the boat had been delayed a month until we rang asking where the rims were.
My Tyre guy is great though, phoned around stores and found this set of 4 second had ones (used once, guy decided he didn't like the look of them once they had been put on his car apparently). When the new rims arrive he's going to swap them over and do my spare.

The rims are Dynamic 16x7 +20 1400Kg rated. Tyres are Hankook RF10 235/85r16. After just a small drive home I can tell the difference made is huge, definitely does not wander as much as the old Steeltreks!

Originally Posted by Chris078

Got new tyres and rims fitted. Finally. My old ones were shot. The tyres had started 'egging' on the sidewalls. Then the rim supplier didn't bother to tell my tyre guy that the boat had been delayed a month until we rang asking where the rims were. My Tyre guy is great though, phoned around stores and found this set of 4 second had ones (used once, guy decided he didn't like the look of them once they had been put on his car apparently). When the new rims arrive he's going to swap them over and do my spare. The rims are Dynamic 16x6 +20 1400Kg rated. Tyres are Hankook RF10 235/85r16. After just a small drive home I can tell the difference made is huge, definitely does not wander as much as the old Steeltreks!

I have the same wheels (actually the 16x7 ) but use the perentie wheel nuts . Should I change? I hate the look if the nuts that stick out so far though

I got time today to throw some paint stripper on the bullbar to get it back to bare gal. The job's not finished, but it's looking good.



It's so shiny it looks like it was dipped yesterday. I'll have an embarrassing few weeks of a shiny bullbar until it dulls down to match the very dull bare gal Wolf rims. I also dropped some things around at the blasters in preparation for another galvanising run next week (that's why the grille and winch plate are off in the first picture).

Originally Posted by dingsy

I have the same wheels (actually the 16x7 ) but use the perentie wheel nuts . Should I change? I hate the look if the nuts that stick out so far though

Mine are 16x7 too (corrected in my post)
You should definitely change those wheel nuts! This is why you can find threads of people complaining about bad handling after changing rims.


The reason is that the old rims are hub centric, the hub takes the load and centres the wheel. The nuts just hold it to the backplate.

On Dynamic rims, they are lug-centric. The Lugs centre the wheel and take the load. If you look closely, you will see a small gap between the hub and wheel when the Dynamic rim is fitted. If you use the normal nuts, the taper is incorrect, which means the rim can move about on the lug.
This is bad. it's uncomfortable, and very dangerous as it results in broken lugs, wrecked rims and wheels coming off.
First you should go to your tyre guy and question why he set you up in such a dangerous fashion. Then you should tell him to buy you a set of nuts. These will have the right taper to lock the wheels so they won't move about.

<edit again> just took a new one off my wheel and checked.The nuts are definitely different. The landrover nuts have a 45? rounded taper. The ones supplied by my tyre shop are a 60? flat taper.
I've sent an e-mail to Dynamic for clarification, will post back when I get a reply.

This will be good...

Yeah I've read all the threads regarding hub centric rings etc. my understanding was that the taper on the steel wheels was fine for aftermarket wheels - I even checked with LRA when I bought them.