| Wheel Center Caps? [message #317385] |
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Matt Colie
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I have a wheel center cap that is ugly. I have been trying to find a replacement. I only really need one and the shipping from Newark would be a stopper. I would like to have it before Elkhart.
Does anybody have a supplier and part number. The local NAPA warehouse can't find it in their catalogs. (But the guy that knew things retired last year.)
Thanks.
Matt - Doing a lube service today.
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan with OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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| Re: Wheel Center Caps? [message #317388 is a reply to message #317385] |
Thu, 11 May 2017 13:58  |
Ken Burton
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What kind of wheel? I assume Alcoa.
I just topped off the refrigerant in my Blazer and fixed a flat on my zero turn mower. Things never quit breaking around here.
Now to go to the airport and work on the GMC to get it ready to go to Blaine's next week.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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| Re: [GMCnet] Wheel Center Caps? [message #317409 is a reply to message #317408] |
Thu, 11 May 2017 20:34 |
Bruce Hart
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For the 2 1/2" Ford cap.
http://www.rockauto.com/en/parts/dorman,618504,wheel+bearing+dust+cap,7668
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Dennis Sexton wrote:
> Matt
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> Check this old thread
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> http://gmc.mybirdfeeder.net/GMCforum/index.php?t=msg&goto=
> 308670&rid=904&srch=Ford+Help#msg_308670
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> Matt Colie wrote on Thu, 11 May 2017 13:16
>> I have a wheel center cap that is ugly. I have been trying to find a
> replacement. I only really need one and the shipping from Newark would be a
>> stopper. I would like to have it before Elkhart.
>>
>> Does anybody have a supplier and part number. The local NAPA warehouse
> can't find it in their catalogs. (But the guy that knew things retired
>> last year.)
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Matt - Doing a lube service today.
>
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> 73 Painted Desert 230
> Memphis TN Metro
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| Re: [GMCnet] Wheel Center Caps? [message #317415 is a reply to message #317409] |
Thu, 11 May 2017 22:47 |
powerjon
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All the caps listed in the previous reply are the 2 1/2” inner caps that fit the rear hubs. What Matt wants if the larger outer cap that was available and fit over the rear inner cap and the big nut on the front. Gary is correct that they were a FORD part number and they were also chrome plated and much heavier in construction and I ran them on the 77 Eleganza II. They were a little over 4” in Diameter. These fit on the hub and not the wheel. They have not been available from FORD for a long time and I have not found any similar replacements. Jim K does not list it on his website. I know that Matt is looking for one of this size cover and it will have to be a used one from someone that might have taken them off and never reinstalled them. The set that I had had gotten rusty and I ended up using the kind shown in this picture on the 77 coach.
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/77-gmc-exterior/p37090-mvc-014s1.html
I use the Alex Sirum Aluminum Covers that fit on the wheel and held on by the lug nuts on the Stretch coach.
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/1978-buskirk-stretch/p48946-pa252054.html
They are available from Alex or Jim K
I would suggest calling Alex S, Jim B, Jim K even Tom Hampton to see if they might have one laying around.
JR Wright
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GMCGL Tech Editor
GMCMI
78 GMC Buskirk 30’ Stretch
1975 GMC Avion (Under Reconstruction)
Michigan
> On May 11, 2017, at 9:34 PM, Bruce Hart wrote:
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> For the 2 1/2" Ford cap.
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> http://www.rockauto.com/en/parts/dorman,618504,wheel+bearing+dust+cap,7668
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> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Dennis Sexton wrote:
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>> Matt
>>
>> Check this old thread
>>
>> http://gmc.mybirdfeeder.net/GMCforum/index.php?t=msg&goto=
>> 308670&rid=904&srch=Ford+Help#msg_308670
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>> Matt Colie wrote on Thu, 11 May 2017 13:16
>>> I have a wheel center cap that is ugly. I have been trying to find a
>> replacement. I only really need one and the shipping from Newark would be a
>>> stopper. I would like to have it before Elkhart.
>>>
>>> Does anybody have a supplier and part number. The local NAPA warehouse
>> can't find it in their catalogs. (But the guy that knew things retired
>>> last year.)
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Matt - Doing a lube service today.
>>
>> --
>> Dennis S
>> 73 Painted Desert 230
>> Memphis TN Metro
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| Re: Wheel Center Caps? [message #317438 is a reply to message #317385] |
Fri, 12 May 2017 09:47 |
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Matt Colie
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To my GMC Family,
I want to thank all that responded.
I got two off web messages from people that have some available. Hopefully I get at least one delivered to the GMCES Work Rally at Blain's.
I was also informed that Sirum may have a box of them taken off when Alcoas were mounted. I will contact them in due time. Right now I want to protect the axle nut from road grime.
Thank you all
Matt - Chaumière is waiting for me to torque the axle nuts she she can move again.
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan with OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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