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



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]

Originally Posted by 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?

they are hardened. guess how i found out

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