<VV> Re: VirtualVairs Digest, Vol 9, Issue 155

[djtcz at comcast.net]

Safety wire would keep the wheel from being released completley.  That's a good thing.

It could still be loose, and the result would be spline wear, similar to the spline wear reported in some diffs.

http://corrosion.ksc.nasa.gov/images/fret4.jpg

http://www.boltscience.com/images/boltf6.jpg
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> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:45:53 -0700 
> From: Tony Underwood 
> Subject: RE: Re: WIRE WHEELS 
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> At 06:50 hours 10/17/2005, Rick Loving wrote: 
> >Knock-off wire wheels are always prone to loosening. I think that every 
> >owner of Kelsey-Hayes or Dayton's that I have talked too said the same 
> >thing. When I bought my 63 the PO had eventually given up on the lead 
> >hammer and switched to a BIG steel one. Beat the living crap out of the 
> >ears to the point they were almost destroyed. 
> 
> Bad news there. The brass mallet (or lead if that's what was 
> available) should be adequate as-is. 
> 
> 
> >I eventfully planned on trying to see if wrapping some Teflon tape (pipe 
> >tape) around the threads to help absorb some road vibration and increase 
> >the resistance between the threads would prevent them from loosening. 
> 
> 
> I'd not use anything on the threads except some grease. No tape. 
> 
> 
> >I would also pick up an extra all lead headed hammer (as not to use the 
> >original hammer) and as routine habit give eact spinner ear a whack at 
> >every gas fill-up. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ...or, do like everyone else I know does, and safety-wire the 
> spinners so they don't loosen. Works with the Limey sports car and 
> Cobra kitcar bunch. 
> 
> 
> tony.. 
>