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Re: Wire Wheels

To: "Dietmar Schlei" <dschlei@pressenter.com>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Wire Wheels
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:25:48 -0600
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From: Dietmar Schlei <dschlei@pressenter.com>
To: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, January 25, 2001 5:18 PM
Subject: Wire Wheels

>I am here with a question again! I will get 4 new Dunlop SP 20 165X15
>($45.00 each at Tires Plus) put onto my wire wheels for the TR4.  Do I need
>to tell the mechanics to watch out for wire wheel specific techniques while
>putting on those tires?  Any recommendations/hints are very welcome.


Sure.  One thing these kids may not remember is how to handle inner tubes.

Another is wheel balance.  There is a good picture in the Vicky Brit catalog
on the correct way to fixture the wheel to be balanced.  I suggest you take
that with you and make sure they know what they are doing.  Either that, or
have Brian Erickson at JAC in Anoka balance them.  Call him first at
421-2705.  Not sure what the Anoka area code is, used to be 612.  There is
nobody I trust with wheel balance more than Brian, and he knows British
cars.

Phil Ethier    Saint Paul  Minnesota  USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
LOON, MAC   pethier@isd.net     http://www.mnautox.com/
"It makes a nice noise when it goes faster"
- 4-year-old Adam, upon seeing a bitmap of Grandma Susie's TR4.

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