THE PORTAL HUB - Pinzgauers, Haflingers, Volvo 303s and more!

Posted: **Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:15 am**

Hi Jim,

Any word on the weight/shipping cost for those rims?

Posted: **Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:04 pm**

BTT

Jim, any word on the shipping cost for those rimes yet??

Posted: **Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:14 pm**

I heard that one in AZ!

Posted: **Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:12 pm**

I am waiting for spec from the manufacturer, they should only be 3-5 lbs heavier than the stock rims.

Posted: **Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:04 am**

Jim, Is that a set of your rims ont he 712m in you photo bucket? Pick in Hawaii

Posted: **Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:18 pm**

Hi Jim,

Any more word on these rims?

Thanks,

Posted: **Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:44 pm**

I am still working on it, my overseas contact has been battling a serious health issue that prevents the project from moving at the moment.
The designer is however seeing about making a Jig to modify the nstock rims on site. When I get more info I will post it

Posted: **Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:24 pm**

can't beleave your going to put out a rim thats going to destroy every one hub bearings.

Have you talked to any of the wheel reps? should be able to get them made up pretty easy.

Posted: **Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:47 am**

Thanks Jim,

I hope that he pulls through his troubles.

Posted: **Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:47 pm**

Jim - Have these become available from your source yet?
Can you post a photo of the finished product?

Posted: **Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:41 pm**

I am working on an alternative plan due to the loss of my friend who had the overseas contacts.
For now the project is on hold

Posted: **Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:45 pm**

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.

Posted: **Wed Jan 07, 2009 1:08 pm**

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

Posted: **Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:42 am**

So this plan for a source for new wider steel wheels is still on hold Jim? There looks to be very strong interest!

Posted: **Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:52 pm**

I drilled my rims with a 29mm hole cutter to get the same result

I'd be cautious about drilling holes in the rims to access the brake adjuster hole.

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.

THE PORTAL HUB - Pinzgauers, Haflingers, Volvo 303s and more!

New steel rims with access holes ready for production.