• Fitting alloys

Posted: **05 May 2006 11:15 pm**

Mr Haynes has a note saying that a shorter speedo cable is needed when going from steelies to alloys due to the potential of fouling on the wheel.

Does anyone have any info on this? how it fouls?

They're steve's old 5 spokes

also just as a straw poll, what size tyres are people running (drifters need not apply, that'll only confuse everything!)?
Both the ones on Ray and the ones on the Panther where 175/something/R13s but the ones on the alloys are 185s

Posted: **05 May 2006 11:43 pm**

No fouling probs!!! You will be fouling the grease cap too if that teh case.
Standard steels run 175 70 13's so as a rule you should go 185 60 14's?
I run 195 50 15's. Go on www.toyo.co.uk they have a tyre converter thing.
Adam

Posted: **06 May 2006 01:39 am**

The ones on the alloys I think are 185/65/14s... I think they should be 60 profile as Adam suggested. But it wont put anything out by a significant amount - just get two bloody tyres for gods sake, I even got you the wheel nuts!

Posted: **06 May 2006 06:25 am**

yeah, standard sizes for 360 GLTs is 185/60/14, but for some reason post 1988 they changed that to 175/65/14. Stupid cos all GLTs from that era came with PAS as standard, so why they made them narrower......

Posted: **07 May 2006 07:43 pm**

No reason for the spedo cable to foul at all. Weired

Posted: **07 May 2006 08:26 pm**

I think Nessy is pimping 185/65/14s, but I'm not too sure off the top of my head. 60 profile is closer to being 'correct'.

Someone at Haynes was clearly honking on the crack pipe even harder than usual that night...

cheers

James

Posted: **07 May 2006 09:39 pm**

GLT's speedo fouls kinda much.. It shows ~10km/h too much. Cable is new part from Volvo so it must be the meter it self.

Posted: **08 May 2006 12:20 am**

When they say foul, I read it as the wheel rubbing on the cable somehow, rather than reading incorrectly.

cheers

James

Posted: **08 May 2006 07:49 am**

might be able to confirm or deny by checking on vadis to see if a different speedo cable is listed for steel wheel and alloy wheel applications

Posted: **08 May 2006 06:32 pm**

Appears to be the same...

cheers

James

Posted: **08 May 2006 07:07 pm**

Guide to fitting wheels... undo old wheel nuts, jack car up, remove steel, put alloy on with alloy wheel nuts, tighten, lower car, tighten.. stand back, admire...

Posted: **08 May 2006 07:51 pm**

Suppliment for readers from Brum...

....go inside, eat cake, look out of window and see pikeys running away with your mad tyte dubz, and cry a little...

cheers

James

Posted: **08 May 2006 10:31 pm**

SteveP wrote:Guide to fitting wheels... undo old wheel nuts, jack car up, remove steel, put alloy on with alloy wheel nuts, tighten, lower car, tighten.. stand back, admire...

In my opinion at least one lock nut per wheel would be a worthwhile addition

Posted: **08 May 2006 10:55 pm**

redline wrote:In my opinion at least one lock nut per wheel would be a worthwhile addition, especially if you live in either Liverpool, Brum or Milton Dump

Fixed

Posted: **09 May 2006 08:16 am**

V6 Man wrote:
redline wrote:if you live in either Liverpool, Brum or Milton Dump
Fixed

OUCH that burned ,

especially from a bloke who lives somewhere that sounds like trapped wind being released