Thread: re-furbing disco steel rims

Originally Posted by Corgie Carrier

I just re did my disco rims, they where all stone chipped and going rusty.

All I did was wash them down with a brush and truck wash, then cut a piece of cardboard to the curve of the rims. I found a half tin of etch primer and gave them a light spray with that, moving the cardboard around as I sprayed. Then I finished with a can of gloss black from bunnings and they look great.

Just make sure you put them in the sun for a while to take the chill off them, it helps the paint bind to the steel.

I figure , no matter which way I went they were going to get chipped and look rough after another few years, so this is the cheapest method I could think of.

Neale

Ditto, but in the absence of the Sun I pre heat them with a gas torch, you can see the moisture condensate off. A much more durable finish..

Originally Posted by modman

Change offset
Hot dip gal
Spray yourself with rattlecans or gun off compressor
You only need to do the outside face once their gal
All paint chips of metal wheels especially 4wdriving
Wheels are easy to spray, even ididit
Fist leave the paint (especially it 2pac) enough time to harden
At least you can touch them up yourself
I know in Vic here certain types of mud stain wheels (labortouche)
David

I have considered flipping the centers however I now have eight rims. This would also mean fitting flares to the tub on my trailers......

Not flip just move the centre in to increase track
I had flipped disco rims on a s111
Too wide for a coiler
David

Oh yeah suits 255's on a deefer perfectly

Originally Posted by weeds

I have considered flipping the centers however I now have eight rims. This would also mean fitting flares to the tub on my trailers......

As mentioned I galvanised my rims. No need to worry about them for at least 30 years after that. They start off shiny silver then fade. As modman mentioned you can still paint the outside face if you wish.

The rims in the pic have not been flipped, but have had the centres moved 15 mm in. You probably wouldn't need to bother modding the trailer rims.
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p...ne_2010012.jpg

Originally Posted by isuzurover

As mentioned I galvanised my rims. No need to worry about them for at least 30 years after that. They start off shiny silver then fade. As modman mentioned you can still paint the outside face if you wish.

The rims in the pic have not been flipped, but have had the centres moved 15 mm in. You probably wouldn't need to bother modding the trailer rims.
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p...ne_2010012.jpg

re: modding trailer rims.....i went to a lot of trouble to have the trailer axle made to suit the defer track.......would love offset rims but dont really want flares on the tub

If you have a 130 tub trailer don't 90 and 110 rear flares go straight on??
Would match your 110
IMHO they break up that slab sided look
Like Ben I have offsets painted
One day ill get them galvanized warm them paint the faces with kill rust and bake them (if I can be bothered)
David

Out of curiosity I just rang a place to get a quote for galvanising. $44 per rim, but they don't do sandblasting so they would have to be clean before hand.

The biggest point though was he recommended NOT to hot dip galvanise rims. He said the gal will pool on the lowest point of the rim causing balance problems.

Originally Posted by Judo

Out of curiosity I just rang a place to get a quote for galvanising. $44 per rim, but they don't do sandblasting so they would have to be clean before hand.

The biggest point though was he recommended NOT to hot dip galvanise rims. He said the gal will pool on the lowest point of the rim causing balance problems.

Last point first - yes it will, but it is easy to touch up with a grinder and on a heavy LR rim won't affect balance. I have galvanised 10 disco rims and 5 series/110 rims. All were dipped and all balanced fine afterwards with minimal work after galvanising.

They can spin them, however that usually costs more.

Galvanisers usually charge extra for rims because they can. it is better to see if you can get one to do them on a weight charge (with other stuff).

I either used paint stripper on my rims beforehand or used a caustic bath (easy to make one up).