Re: [FWDLK] radial tires and lost hubcaps

[Richard Whelan <rwhelansr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been running Coker 215-14 radials  and AAJ front disc brakes for 
several years now with original 57 Plymouth rims with no wheel cover loss or 
slippage or problems of any kind. About 8,000 miles now with three high 
speed trips to Carlisle with no difficulties. On a different note, I had a 
57 Pontiac with aftermarket rims and 225- 14 radials about 10 years old that 
looked to be in excellent condition. Well on the NY Thruway, on the way to 
the Dunkirk flea market one of the tires failed suddenly and completely ( 
tread seperation), luckily it was a rear and didn't create a control problem 
slowing down from the 75 MPH we were running. I guess its not a bad idea to 
replace tires every 5 or 6 years no matter how good they look!
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Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] radial tires and lost hubcaps


> OK; my turn, at this dance:
>
> Back in 81, when my car was running G78x14 Bias plys, the car  would
> roll-off a front spinner, with some regularity, on slow speed
> city-cornering.
>
> I re"tired" that rim, to the trunk's-spare wheel/tire, and replaced it,
> with another one, I had.
>
> Since then, I started running radial tires, on the OEM 5 1/2"x14 " rims.
>
> First came... (IIRC---but they WERE all different sizes; so 'much' for
> only being "able" to run one-size radial, before catastrophic wheel
> failure)...a 205 series, followed years  later by a 215 series, and
> finally, I'm now running correct size Diamondback radials (altho their
> size is shown on them as being  in some sort of weird Euro measurement).
>
> My friend , Ron Mog, used to say that I would drive Horrie too hard,
> around corners, but, I enjoy his handling, now that I've beefed up the
> suspension components.
>
> Anyway, this year, Ron may have been (partly) correct, as the car
> suffered right front wheel bearing failure( the bearings being about 20
> years old, now!), which was relatively very easily repaired, by over-the
> counter replacement bearings----Ron had said that the aggressive
> cornering might be 'hard' on the bearings--altho I'd upgraded the
> brakes, wheel spindles & bearings to 11x3" components .
>
> Also, this year, when I had the wheels rotated, I DID have a Spinner
> come off a front wheel, upon surface street cornering (apparently due to
> the shop's having mis-matched the wheel covers, to the wheel(s) from
> which the 'covers' had ben removed).
>
> EASY fix, tho: I just bent-out the peripheral serrated 'tabs', on the
> wheel cover, so as to increase their grip ONTO  the wheel!!
>
> No more 'spinning' Spinners!
>
> Moral: just because a wheel cover may come off a rim, doesn't mean that
> the RIM or the tire, necessarily, is at fault, for the 'failure'.
>
> Try to 'tighten/increase' the grip, of the wheel
> cover, TO the rim.
>
> Neil Vedder
>
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