Date:         Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:05:30 -0800
Reply-To:     BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Merkur Scorpio alloys & other wheels which can fit Vanagons
Comments: To: bike2vcu@yahoo.com
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>wrote:

>   Thanks for the clarification.  I know the bolt pattern is the same and
> have seen photos of Vanagons with these wheels that I recognize as being
> from the Scorpio, but it was too good to be true that they would just bolt
> up since so few wheels do so properly.
>
> Stephen
>


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Stephen,

There are actually quite a bit of wheels which will fit a Vanagon. One of
these days, I'll put that page back together in VanagonCafe.com. In fact I
had a photo there of Bill Kasper's Syncro with the Merkur Scorpio wheels
which he bought
from a friend of mine. Bill used 8mm spacers and longer studs. The rest was
a bolt on.

I will post at a later date about a new product that I want to test which
allows you to install a 5 X 114.3 (typical Japanese
bolt pattern) to a Vanagon. The bolts themselves become the adapter but
there are limits on the wheel which it can work
on depending on the size of the lughole.


BenT