Thread: Modifying Rims

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

The only legal way to do this is to have a wheel works or similar remove the old rim from the centre and weld on a new rim. Qld. Dept. of Transport are quite specific that the only permissible welds on a wheel are for joining the rim to the centre. Rim width may not be altered by cutting and welding. Such wheels found by Departmental inspectors on a road registered vehicle render the vehicle unroadworthy, the vehicle must not be moved on those wheels, and such use attracts a fine and loss of points.
The Department also is quite specific in that no part of a vehicles steering or suspension systems may be repaired by heating or welding. There is a D.o.T. brochure detailing permissible modifications part of which covers rims etc.

Makes me wonder how they think springs are made and for that matter steel wheels are joined.

Originally Posted by BigJon

Moorey - What sort of offset? I am looking for something that will give me wider track (maybe 60 mm in total, maybe more) as standard track on Rangie axles is a bit narrow for the body. How much $$?

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Originally Posted by RoverOne

I may be wrong but the old steel Rangie rim out in the shed (factory) is joined by a weld, its not one piece.

This is quoted verbatim from Qld. Dept of Transport publication QT3166 January 2005 which is current.
"All rims fitted to an axle must be of the same diameter, width, and offset. They must not have a circumferential weld other than that which attaches the outer rim to the centre. All rims must have stud hole pitch circle diameters suitable to the hub. Wheel nut tapers must be appropriate to the wheel and must engage the thread of the wheel studs for art leastthe samelength as the nuts provided by the vehicle manufacturer. Slotted and elongated holes are not permitted. The fitting of spacers or adaptors between wheelsand hubs, additional to those provided by the vegicle manufacturer, is not permitted."

Originally Posted by CraigE

Makes me wonder how they think springs are made and for that matter steel wheels are joined.

This quoted verbatim from Qld. Dept. of Transport publication "Modifications" QT3166 January 2005 which is current.
"The welding, chrome plating, heating, or bending of axles, suspension, or steering components, as a method of repair or alteration, is not permitted".