hello jon,
when i got my rims from cdm, les hogged the center hub area to make it fit.
far as the center caps... my front dust caps have been flattened by the
previous owner... but i still had a clearence issue... try putting the center
cap on first then the rim on the hub.
good luck
ken
--- Jon and Maggie <jm.rider@verizon.net> wrote:
> Team,
> I have always desired to have a set of panasport wheels on my roadster and
> finally found a set of 15" wheels with the right offset and bolt pattern. I
> was pretty excited about this. However, I just got back from my local Les
> Schaab dealer and now have some issues that I'm hoping the list can help me
> to
> resolve.
>
> The wheels fit on the car just fine front and rear except for the very
> inner
> portion of the wheel against the front caliper/bolt plate. This part (excuse
> my ignorance for not knowing what you call it) has a larger lip the sticks
> out
> about 3/16 of an inch past the plate. The panasports have had the inside of
> the wheel milled at a 45 degree angle from the face but it is still about 1/8
> of an inch too narrow (no metrics this time) so the wheel does not fit up
> snug
> against the bolt plate. How have others who have the panasports dealt with
> this problem? My thoughts at this point are to go to my local machinist and
> have him mill out this very small area to allow for the wheel to fit over the
> protruding lip. I fiigure I would only have to cut into the 45 degree
> portion
> of the wheel a maximum of an 1/8th of an inch and would actually be taking
> out
> less metal than that as it would be cut into the 45 degree portion. Hope
> that
> all makes sense????
>
> Also, the panasport center cap is too shallow in the front as well. Do the
> make a deeper cap?
>
> Thanks (as always)
>
> Jon
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