I have not discussed the wheelcover solution here yet (forgot about it - I drive PROPERLY engineered Imperials with correct tires for the rims - (1960!, bias ply)). Am still working out the patent and licencing rights on this idea. Please mail your royalty checks to me direct in the meantime. But seriously: Get "SAFETY WIRE" and a pair of safety wire pliers. I got mine from the local sports-motorcycle shop: http://cyclegear.com/dept.cfm This is stainless steel wire. When I was pit crewing for the Lotus formula car, sensitive parts that were prone to vibrating loose had a small hole drilled in them and this wire was passed through. The pliers then lock on the wire and you use them to spin the wire and tie it onto another solid part. This was mandated by the rules for the events and was part of Tech inspection. You have no idea the chaos that happens when a part falls off a race car or motorcycle at speed, even if it's just a nut or bolt. - this tool/solution addresses this neatly. If you buy the tool, try to get the seller to demonstrate it. It is very cool but will defy most casual attempts to use it on the first try with no instructions - it just does not follow any other tool's logic path. This tool's utility is just behind the pry-bar, crescent wrench, and big hammer once you figure out how it works. Heard the term "held together with bailing wire"? Guess which tool that came from? -1001 uses! So now you have the wire and the tool. Hubcap off car. Wheel on car. Car jacked up and inside of wheel nearest drum is cleaned with solvent to allow adhesive tape to go there. Cut 3 5-foot lengths (shorter? You try..) of safety wire. Loop the ends of one wire through adjacent ventilation slots on the wheel cover. thread the two ends of the wire through 2 adjacent holes in the steel car wheel. Line up valve stem first and make certain that you don't need to remove the cover to air- get extensions if your valve stems need them. Feed through to the inside of the rim where you can grab them with your hand from the engine side of the wheel. Repeat at least 2 other times, spacing the wires equally around the rim. You can do 4 or 5 if you really want to be dead certain you'll never lose a cover, but 3 should be good enough. You now have a cover that should be slapped onto the wheel. Do so without having the wires fall out. Take the safety wire pliers and go to the backside of the wheel where you have 3 (or more) pairs of safety wire. Clamp the matched pair of wires together with the tool. start twizzling them together, being sure not to over tighten, and break the wire. Do it snug but not torqued, as the cover will do the work of keeping itself on, not the wire. Trim excess wire and duct tape wire onto your (cleaned off) wheel so that it does not drag and slap on the drum or running gear. Put a pair of dykes or other cutting tool into your glovebox against the day that you need to remove the wheel-cover when you're away from your tool box. You have been warned on that one. Good luck, chuck. Let us know how it goes. -Kenyon Kenyon Wills ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the Administrators should be sent to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm