Next time you replace a front brake drum, save the old one. With the outer
bearing races in place it makes a great adapter for most tire balancers to
accept those early wheels.

Dennis

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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Old Volks Home
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:22 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Can steel wheels be trued?

Probably so.  That's like trying to find a tire/wheel shop to high-speed
balance 5 Lug 205mm pattern rims that went on Bug to 67 and Buses thru 70.
These days I have to have them "static bubble balanced" (and some will swear
it's better to do it that way).  Many tire/wheel shops have scrapped stuff
like that to the wayside or because the advent of the alloy wheel, are too
new to have had equipment like that in the first place.  My recommendation
is to check tire/wheel shops that have been in biz for very LOOOONNNNGGGG
time, like 3 or 4 decades or more for information and/or equipment on that.
--
Jim Thompson
84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
73 K Ghia Coupe "Denise"
72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
oldvolkshome@gmail.com
http://www.oldvolkshome.com
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On 2/27/07, Jim Felder <felder@knology.net> wrote:
>
> My camper has its original set of steel wheels and it occurred to me
> recently that the car would look a whole lot better if I stripped and
> resprayed the wheels. Trouble is, none of them are perfect (as much
> as .040 out in either horizontal or vertical dimension) and I would
> like to get them trued. It seems to me that 30 years ago, there were
> places you could take a wheel (they were steel back then as a given)
> and get them trued up with simple machines that used big roller
> bearings to do the job.
>
> I called the one place in town listed as truing wheels, and they said
> "if they're steel, we can't do nothin' about 'em."
>
> Izzat so?
>
> Jim