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[Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator]

3 hours ago, Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO said:

Found a Westfield replacement. 

 

must have been a lot different to the crossflow @Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO could you handle the power and cornering speeds OK? 

[Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO]

12 hours ago, Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator said:

must have been a lot different to the crossflow @Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO could you handle the power and cornering speeds OK? 

Moved on to this next. 

[Stuart Davis AO - Devon Cornwall & Somerset]

Something Westfield related for me finally. I received the replacement pushrod for my AP Racing Master cylinder so replaced that and got it all put back together. Hopefully 🤞  can get the brakes bled today and if the weather is good take it to the meet tomorrow night.

 

I’ll post up separately with more on what I’ve done. Hopefully my pedals are finally well positioned and I’ll have a firm brake pedal 👍🤞

 

 

 

 

 

 

[NickBW]

I blame @Crash test dummy.  Just finished the painstakingly pain in the butt job and replaced the floor.

[NickBW]

3 minutes ago, NickBW said:

I blame @Crash test dummy.  Just finished the painstakingly pain in the butt job and replaced the floor.

And I don't driver her in the dark but I am impressed with the lights!

[Stuart Davis AO - Devon Cornwall & Somerset]

Last piece of the jigsaw today. My spacers arrived in time to get the fitted while I had the wheels off. All done, car is back on four wheels! Rear arches filled much better now.

 

I’ll take it for a quick test this lunchtime, and if it stops, and the rears don’t fall off, I’ll brave it to Cullompton for our meet tonight!! Perhaps not on the M5 though! 🤪🤪
 

 

 

 

[Stuart Davis AO - Devon Cornwall & Somerset]

Test drive successful! All four wheels stayed on, car ran well and the brakes are a revelation! Need to get used to a higher, firmer pedal but it actually now stops how it always should have done 👍👍

[Flying Carrot Steve]

4 hours ago, Stuart Davis (fatblokestu) AO - Devon & Somerset said:

Last piece of the jigsaw today. My spacers arrived in time to get the fitted while I had the wheels off. All done, car is back on four wheels! Rear arches filled much better now.

 

I’ll take it for a quick test this lunchtime, and if it stops, and the rears don’t fall off, I’ll brave it to Cullompton for our meet tonight!! Perhaps not on the M5 though! 🤪🤪
 

 

 

 

 

Are the spacers held on by using longer wheel bolts?

 

I have spacers on my Jag but they use a different system because the wheels are held on by nuts instead of bolts. The spacers are first bolted to the hub then the wheels are bolted to the spacers. 

[Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO]

Another form of tracked machinery. 

[Stuart Davis AO - Devon Cornwall & Somerset]

1 hour ago, Flying Carrot Steve said:

 

Are the spacers held on by using longer wheel bolts?

 

I have spacers on my Jag but they use a different system because the wheels are held on by nuts instead of bolts. The spacers are first bolted to the hub then the wheels are bolted to the spacers. 

Yes, longer bolts. Standard are 25mm so I bought 45mm ones and they worked fine. Somehow I preferred the thought of direct connection to the hub but I’ve know idea if one method is better than the other?

[Flying Carrot Steve]

1 hour ago, Stuart Davis (fatblokestu) AO - Devon & Somerset said:

Yes, longer bolts. Standard are 25mm so I bought 45mm ones and they worked fine. Somehow I preferred the thought of direct connection to the hub but I’ve know idea if one method is better than the other?

I think as long as you good quality spacers they are both fine. I've had no issues at all with mine on the Jag. 

[Stuart]

I've got some similar 16mm ones and they've been absolutely fine

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

I used 15mm spacers on the rear of mine when I bought some wheels and tyres that had an offset that much different from the originals. Longer studs were needed as only eight turns of the nuts seemed marginal. There was debate on here at the time about how many turns were required as minimum for optimum strength. There was no firm conclusion so I thought overkill would avoid any other 'kill'. If 'blind' nuts were fitted, though, bottoming-out of the nuts was a risk if not allowed for.

[Stuart Davis AO - Devon Cornwall & Somerset]

1 hour ago, Man On The Clapham Omnibus said:

I used 15mm spacers on the rear of mine when I bought some wheels and tyres that had an offset that much different from the originals. Longer studs were needed as only eight turns of the nuts seemed marginal. There was debate on here at the time about how many turns were required as minimum for optimum strength. There was no firm conclusion so I thought overkill would avoid any other 'kill'. If 'blind' nuts were fitted, though, bottoming-out of the nuts was a risk if not allowed for.

I just choose 45mm bolts as the originals were 25mm plus the 20mm spacers so my simple logic was that I would end up with the same amount of thread in the hub. What I haven’t been able to verify is how much was in in the first place but it should be all the way through I think, looking at the depth on the wheel etc.

[Flying Carrot Steve]

58 minutes ago, Stuart Davis (fatblokestu) AO - Devon & Somerset said:

I just choose 45mm bolts as the originals were 25mm plus the 20mm spacers so my simple logic was that I would end up with the same amount of thread in the hub. What I haven’t been able to verify is how much was in in the first place but it should be all the way through I think, looking at the depth on the wheel etc.

That makes complete sense, exactly how I would have thought it through myself if I were fitting them to my Westfield Stuart 👍

 

My Jag ones were specific to the model of car, made by Direnza. They really are excellent quality I have to say. 

 

https://www.direnza.co.uk/product-category/wheel-spacers/