Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:23:21 -0400
Reply-To: Larry Alofs <lalofs@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Larry Alofs <lalofs@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: start of a rear bumper build
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Alloy wheels against steel hubs! Now you've got me started. I've had so
many alloy wheels stuck on vehicles that I have just purchased...
Sometimes a swift kick will loosen them. Other times a "big friendly
hammer" or loosening the lug nuts a few turns and driving around until it
starts to clunk. When that didn't work recently on an Audi A4, my daughter
and I together swung an 8 ft. 4X4 like a battering ram with great vigor.
Big problem with alloys on Jeep Cherokees.
Most tire shops now have enough sense to apply some type of goop to the
inside of the wheel when installing, but not all.
Larry A.
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Probably ss fasteners if only just to bug David B. who will point out the
> electrolysis problem between stainless and aluminum :)
>
> Won't be a problem at all, large amount of aluminum, small amount of
> stainless. If on the other hand I had a stainless bumper and for some
> reason used aluminum bolts.... then the bolts would be gone in a while.
>
> As to worrying about aluminum bolted onto the vanagon frame, well I think
> you are too late in that worry. Happens all over the van, including your
> alloy wheels :)
>
> cheers
>
> alistair
>
>
> On 2013-08-01, at 10:28 AM, neil n wrote:
>
> > Looking good Alistair.
> >
> > What fasteners would you use? SS? Any real risk of a reaction between
> > the Vanagon steel frame and an aluminum bumper?
> >
> > (not to be a wet rag or anything. ;) )
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> >> I've posted my progress to date of my "hard to keep the pot boiling"
> rear bumper build. Very early days yet.
> >>
> >> http://shufti.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/vanagon-rear-bumper-build/
> >>
> >> I'm making it from 1/4" 6061 aluminum . Why aluminum? because I like
> the stuff, nicer to work with than steel, cleaner too. And I tend to
> contradict Colin Chapman's dictum of "simplify and add lightness" so
> starting with a lighter material will help keep the overall weight down :)
> >>
> >>
> >> alistair
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Neil n
> >
> > Blog: tubaneil.blogspot.ca
> >
> > '88 Westy http://tinyurl.com/c8rlw6p
> >
> > '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
> >
> > Vanagon VAG Gas inline-VR Engine Swap Group:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/d7gd5ej
>
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