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Report: how I obtained wider wheels 444-544

posted by  nmcbride on  Mon Aug 31 16:36 CST 2009
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Hello all--

I started out to post a few photos of my recent wheel replacement, and ended up with a blogtastic journey

http://onethingway.blogspot.com/2009/08/wide-is-now.html

Thanks to Pete, JohnMC and Sil, all of whom supplied useful information while I was pulling wheels, tires, and front suspension together. N







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    uid 4846's pic
    posted by  JohnMc on  Tue Sep 1 02:16 CST 2009
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    So 3.75 backspacing fits? Color me surprised! I could swear there's just a *tiny* bit of clearance on my 3.3" backspacing wheels.

    I even bought a set of fairly cheap 14X6 TT D's and tried them on, and they rubbed there (and rubbed the tie rod end, which is why they went right back out on eBay).

    Maybe it's the thinner steel wheel? Could you fit a tire weight on the inner rim?

    Who knows, maybe I checked clearance against the bent arm that I later replaced.
    --
    '63 PV544 rat rod, '93 Classic #1141 245 +t








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      Report: how I obtained wider wheels 444-544

      posted by  volvorelix on  Tue Sep 1 07:57 CST 2009
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      Surprises me, too - I have 3.25" backspacing on 15" widened steelies and MUST use 1/4" spacers up front.

      Best,

      Cameron
      444,122SC
      Rose City








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        Report: how I obtained wider wheels 444-544

        posted by  nmcbride on  Tue Sep 1 15:03 CST 2009
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        I am super surprised myself...and believe me, the clearance to the ball joint casting is TIGHT. Like, millimeters. I was fully prepared to have to grind some clearance onto the steering and suspension.
        It may be the shape of the particular rims Stockton's using? The steel is thinner than alloy for sure but these are chunky wheels, quite heavy and visibly thicker stock than the originals. N








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    PS 444-544

    posted by  nmcbride on  Mon Aug 31 16:37 CST 2009
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    ...for F's sake, will somebody kindly reiterate, for the billionth time, how I attach a photo to my post?!








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      PS 444-544

      posted by  1966-estate on  Tue Sep 1 05:21 CST 2009
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      Be glad to, when using photobucket or flickr as a photo hosting site it's the "HTML" code they provide for the pic that you need to cut and paste into the body of the message. Not the Image code or the URL, some forums do use those to post a pic but BB is the HTML code.


      Your welcome
      Chris








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      Attaching Pics 444-544

      posted by  Ron Kwas on  Mon Aug 31 23:08 CST 2009
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      The technique I use is this:



      (replace XXX with [full] location URL of pic you want to embed...this allows you to embed a pic into your posting from anywhere...to get the URL, right click while mousing over pic, then copy entire URL from Proprties, and paste into your post, replacing XXX)

      Cheers








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        Second try... 444-544

        posted by  Ron Kwas on  Mon Aug 31 23:21 CST 2009
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        ...I guess that didn't work so well...let try that again:

        Givens:

        < =left carrot
        > =right carrot

        left carrotimg src="PIC URL"right carrot

        (Replace the text with its equal)







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          posted by  nmcbride on  Tue Sep 1 15:11 CST 2009
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          Here goes:

          Nope.

          It looks like my URL from Blogspot is too long and getting cut off...









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            uid 4846's pic
            posted by  JohnMc on  Wed Sep 2 02:03 CST 2009
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            The URL on your attempt seemed to be mixed in with some Brickboard URL:

            http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1369576/444-544/^imgsrc=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oK1Z4E-Yek8/Spx-H3oqGVI/AAAAAAAAAA8/zb3dHp0esY

            --
            '63 PV544 rat rod, '93 Classic #1141 245 +t








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          Second try... 444-544

          posted by  walrus3 on  Tue Sep 1 02:04 CST 2009
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          Carrot??
          Caret? A caret is ^
          < = "less than"
          > = "greater than"
          {at least when I took English (¿Anguish?) and math, which has admittedly been a LONG time!}
          --
          George Downs, Bartlesville, Heart of the USA!







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