Anybody with a lathe that can help?

[rapidtornado]

Anybody with a lathe in the Bristol/South East Wales/Hereford triangle? I need about 2mm skimmed off the diameter of my rear stub axles

Cheers
rapid ;)

[Talonmotorsport]

Stub axles on a Sierra or the splined drive shaft ? Stub axle this being a bolt on pin/spigot that a bearing goes on to carry a hub? Have you got a pic of what you talking about?

[rapidtornado]

Apologies on my terminology, hopefully the pic below explains

http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n601/rapidtornado/stubaxle.jpg

Basically this diameter interferes with the clearance on my alloy wheels by about 1mm so thought easiest to skim by 2mm to be sure.... any other ideas gents?

[Talonmotorsport]

The size of the centre boss needs to be the same as the recess in the rim to locate it properly, the wheel nuts or bolts only hold the rim on. If you can't find any body local to your self send them to me and I'll turn them to size, that is of course as long as there not hardened?

[AshG]

The size of the centre boss needs to be the same as the recess in the rim to locate it properly, the wheel nuts or bolts only hold the rim on. If you can't find any body local to your self send them to me and I'll turn them to size, that is of course as long as there not hardened?

they are hardened. guess how i found out :D

i assume you have the discs/drums on before fitting the wheel as they will swallow up a few mm.

if you want them machined i can safely say your gonna need carbide tooling to manage it.

[baz-r]

would it be easyer just to use a thin wheel spacer

bit hard for bench tops and such like but easy for anyone with proper size mill or lathe

[ozzy1]

You could get them ground down by the 1mm by a company with a cylindrical grinder as they grind hardened stuff all the time.The only thing i wonder is are they only case hardened as removing 1mm will most likely removed the hardened depth..
Also you would want the size to be accurate as the wheels locate on here and if its undersize you will be putting all the load on the studs only.

[rapidtornado]

Thanks for the input guys, may have a rethink on this one as I didn't give it too much thought regarding the fact the wheel is locating on this I thought there had to be clearance... so cheers for the heads up. It's only a minor interference so do you think putting a mop wheel in the alloy rim may just openin it up a tad to take the shaft?:confused:

Rapid

[danilo]

Actually that might prove the more clever path.. Resizing the Hubcentric 'hole' in the wheels.
BUT it also has to be done precisely If even a teeny bit off centre the wheels will never run true. You really won't like that.

[rapidtornado]

hoping to do it this weekend, the plan would be to buy a mop wheel 5mm larger than the hole pressing it in then just giving it a few burst on the drill so it should then stay concentric, worth a stab, aiming to take the powder coating off only, that maybe enough to get the hub to fit (he sayes fingers crossed):o