

| Subject: | Re: Boring out hubs on wheels... |
| Date: | Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:23:51 EDT |
In a message dated 6/26/08 10:39:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
greentabe-vanagon@YAHOO.COM writes:
> So I'm trying to think of a clever way of boring out the hubs
> on some alloy wheels I have.
>
> Best idea so far: make/get a piece of wood the right size to
> fit inside the existing bore. Use a hole saw to drill through
> the hub. The drill bit that keeps the hole saw centred will be
> located by the piece of wood.
>
> What works better than that? I assume there's something...
>
>
>
two words.
machine shop.
dont do it yourself, you'll fck them up..
most machine shops charge $10 per wheel to open up the center hub hole, and
can do it so it accepts a vanagon carat alloy wheel centercap.
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