New steel rims with access holes ready for production.
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Jim - Have these become available from your source yet?
Can you post a photo of the finished product?
Can you post a photo of the finished product?
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Sorry to hear about your friend. From all of these posts, it looks like you have some customers when the time comes to focus on this again.
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You dont need new rims for this set up
I drilled my rims with a 29mm hole cutter to get the same result. I used the drum as a guide. Take out the allen bolt place the drum inside the rim and mark the centre through the brake adjusting hole.
Then drill a guide hole from the inside of the rim and use the 29mm cutter from the outside.
You only need one hole per rim.
Steve
I drilled my rims with a 29mm hole cutter to get the same result. I used the drum as a guide. Take out the allen bolt place the drum inside the rim and mark the centre through the brake adjusting hole.
Then drill a guide hole from the inside of the rim and use the 29mm cutter from the outside.
You only need one hole per rim.
Steve
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So this plan for a source for new wider steel wheels is still on hold Jim? There looks to be very strong interest!
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I'd be cautious about drilling holes in the rims to access the brake adjuster hole.I drilled my rims with a 29mm hole cutter to get the same result
When I brought my Pinzgauer it had been the Australian demonstrator vehicle for some years, and some bright spark at the business had this same great idea to simplify brake adjustment.
When I stripped the vehicle for restoration 5 out of the 7 rims (spare included) had severe cracking radiating from the hole.
Cracks that in some cases extended to the wheel stud holes and beyond.
It took a great deal of time an effort to machine "slugs" to match the holes and surface wheel contours, end drill the cracks and then fillet and weld it all back to original condition....time I could well have saved if this mod hadn't been done.
Given the vehicles unique suspension setup and it's off road capabilities there is obviously some strange stress forces happening on those rims under severe load and I'm guessing that's why the factory design engineers never adopted such a mod/feature.
Peter
1974, 712 6X6 Pinzgauer
1983, 710-1.6 4X4 Pinzgauer
1997, 718 6X6 Pinzgauer (in pieces)
1971, 700 Haflinger
1974, 703 LWB Haflinger
2001, Range Rover
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1974, 712 6X6 Pinzgauer
1983, 710-1.6 4X4 Pinzgauer
1997, 718 6X6 Pinzgauer (in pieces)
1971, 700 Haflinger
1974, 703 LWB Haflinger
2001, Range Rover
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