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Re: [Roadsters] Donut

To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Donut
From: "John F Sandhoff" <sandhoff@csus.edu>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:35:25 -0700
> So, I broadened my JY search & found that the "donut" from the first
> generation Saab 900 (1979-1987) works like a charm. It is thin and of a
> smaller diameter than the stock steel wheel + tire.

If it is smaller in diameter than the tire it's replacing, beware that
it may be incompatible with a limited slip rear end. To the diff, you're
always turning in a circle and/or one tire is always slipping. I don't
know if a run-of-the-mill diff will suffer under such treatment.

-- John
     John F Sandhoff   sandhoff@csus.edu   Sacramento, CA
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