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Alcoa hub caps [message #306954] Sun, 11 September 2016 13:53 Go to next message
Hal StClair   United States
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Just wondering if anyone has found some hub caps that fit the Alcoa wheels that just 'push' into the center hole rather than under the lug nut/washer? Mine are looking a little shabby and I really don't like the mounting method of the originals. Anyone?
Thanks, Hal


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Re: Alcoa hub caps [message #306957 is a reply to message #306954] Sun, 11 September 2016 14:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
jhbridges is currently offline  jhbridges   United States
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Something which goes over the outer dust cover on the brake drum and fits the hole in the road wheel?

One of mine has just chrome domes which fit under the lug nuts, the other (which you saw) is the same except "EAGLE ALLOYS" is stamped in each one. Again under the lug nuts. Never saw on the press fit the wheel hole, but you ought to could spin something on your lathe and then have it plated. An option might be to take one of the ones we see, cut the flat part off inside the lug holes, weld some clips on the inside to hold in the wheel hole, and then replate it to cover the weld marks.
Got an old J C Whitney catalog? Some of their 'baby moon' caps might be the correct size.

--johnny


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Re: [GMCnet] Alcoa hub caps [message #306960 is a reply to message #306957] Sun, 11 September 2016 15:21 Go to previous message
Mr ERFisher is currently offline  Mr ERFisher   United States
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Read here

http://gmcmotorhome.info/wheels.html#caps


On Sunday, September 11, 2016, Johnny Bridges via Gmclist <
gmclist@list.gmcnet.org> wrote:

> Something which goes over the outer dust cover on the brake drum and fits
> the hole in the road wheel?
>
> One of mine has just chrome domes which fit under the lug nuts, the other
> (which you saw) is the same except "EAGLE ALLOYS" is stamped in each one.
> Again under the lug nuts. Never saw on the press fit the wheel hole, but
> you ought to could spin something on your lathe and then have it plated. An
> option might be to take one of the ones we see, cut the flat part off
> inside the lug holes, weld some clips on the inside to hold in the wheel
> hole,
> and then replate it to cover the weld marks.
> Got an old J C Whitney catalog? Some of their 'baby moon' caps might be
> the correct size.
>
> --johnny
> --
> '76 23' transmode Norris upfit, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and
> add - ons.
> Braselton, Ga.
>
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> dirty life and times" --Warren Zevon
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