{"id":677,"date":"2013-01-17T18:20:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T07:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?p=677"},"modified":"2013-01-17T18:20:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T07:20:52","slug":"677","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"Win some lose some"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hot one today so slothful enterprises only.<\/p>\n

Received in the mail today a wheel centre for the Bug from Peter from Richards Bros Cardiff, Wales.\u00a0 Peter was worried that the wire wheels I have ordered may not fit so decided to send out a centre for a trial fit and he was half right, the fronts are OK the rears are too tight a fit on my splines.\u00a0 So I could:<\/p>\n

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  1. Put the new 2.5″ (narrow) wheels on the front and leave to old 4″ (fatties) on the back for the hotrod look.<\/li>\n
  2. Send the rear splines to Richards Bros. to get machined to fit the wheels.<\/li>\n
  3. \u00a0Don’t do anything for now and save up for some alloy blade wheels?\u00a0 Bugatti’s do look good with those wheels…….<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    While on the Bugatti, I took it out on a local club\u00a0 “Cento Miglia” Economy Run and achieved 30MPG which is exactly what Ettore said it would do, very prescient of him.\u00a0 Also I noticed that my VDO Car\/Bike speedo seemed to be missing, I immediately thought this was some sort Franco\/German problem, however really it appeared to coincide with a grinding- rubbing noise, unfortunately it had fallen into a gap between the seat and the alternator pulley guard, photo attached.<\/p>\n

    The Sizaire now has modern seals in the rear hubs after I discovered the RH housing was a recent fabrication so it did not seem so bad machining the centre out to put seals in.\u00a0 I have also welded a replacement bracket on the RHS brakes, hopefully a better weld than the Blu-tack previously applied. The bracket is not absolutely necessary for retardation ….. in a forward direction anyway.<\/p>\n

    Lastly sorry about all the arrows and captions in the photos as I’ve just discovered the “Skitch”\u00a0 app on my iphone.
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