OT - wheels

toying with how to make the minibus ride more smoothly on rough roads, and
one option may be larger wheels - it's very low-geared, so upping the
gearing a touch wouldn't hurt.

Anyone know of dual-type wheels (i.e. the ones with huge offset), summat
like 5.5J16, which will fit on a 6-stud 170mm PCD hub?

Failing that, anyone have a link to the people who make the cheap white
8-spokes and so forth?

New transits are on 16", but naturally, they've changed the PCD.

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"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> toying with how to make the minibus ride more smoothly on rough roads, and
> one option may be larger wheels - it's very low-geared, so upping the
> gearing a touch wouldn't hurt.
>
> Anyone know of dual-type wheels (i.e. the ones with huge offset), summat
> like 5.5J16, which will fit on a 6-stud 170mm PCD hub?
>
> Failing that, anyone have a link to the people who make the cheap white
> 8-spokes and so forth?
>
> New transits are on 16", but naturally, they've changed the PCD.

Bigger tyres???

Razor straps ride like a go cart so surely the reverse is applicable... or
by smooth do you mean less wallowy??

Lee D

On or around Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:48:19 +0100, "Lee_D"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>>
>Bigger tyres???
>
>Razor straps ride like a go cart so surely the reverse is applicable... or
>by smooth do you mean less wallowy??

nah, smoothing out small bumps is the plan. Already tried bigger tyres run
softer, and they work a bit better: standard tyres are 185R14, it's now got
195s on the front, and will, provided I keep it, eventually get 195s on the
rear as well - can't fit bigger ones on the twin wheels as they'll touch in
the middle - 195 is the max.

bigger diameter looks a good prospect.


However, 's all changing on the school front (again!!) and as such I may not
need 8 passenger seats, so judging by the price that S/H LRs are fetching,
especially discos, I might go back to a disco at this rate, or maybe a
newer/tidier 110 CSW - I like the CSW, and in fact, prefer it to the disco,
really. If I did that, I'd not be bothered about making the minibus ride
better, of course.

it's a good 10 mph slower on the rough stuff than the disco/110 were. Disco
is the softest-riding of the lot, of course, but in a 110 I reckon if I did
rear-facing seats I could get 3 rows of 3 in. might do it front-facing, at
that; provided I could get access.

And no, I don't want a 101. Well, actually, I do - but to get one and get
it converted and sorted as a proper bus would cost too much.

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Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering
from the strawbuilt shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing
horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed."
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

Hi, what about the old large style transit the "A" series they had 16" dual
wheels also I think the Bedford TK's were 16" but I don't know the PCD
though, but were 6 stud ..

Rich

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"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On or around Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:48:19 +0100, "Lee_D"
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >news:[email protected]...
> >>
> >Bigger tyres???
> >
> >Razor straps ride like a go cart so surely the reverse is applicable...
or
> >by smooth do you mean less wallowy??
>
> nah, smoothing out small bumps is the plan. Already tried bigger tyres
run
> softer, and they work a bit better: standard tyres are 185R14, it's now
got
> 195s on the front, and will, provided I keep it, eventually get 195s on
the
> rear as well - can't fit bigger ones on the twin wheels as they'll touch
in
> the middle - 195 is the max.
>
> bigger diameter looks a good prospect.
>
>
> However, 's all changing on the school front (again!!) and as such I may
not
> need 8 passenger seats, so judging by the price that S/H LRs are fetching,
> especially discos, I might go back to a disco at this rate, or maybe a
> newer/tidier 110 CSW - I like the CSW, and in fact, prefer it to the
disco,
> really. If I did that, I'd not be bothered about making the minibus ride
> better, of course.
>
> it's a good 10 mph slower on the rough stuff than the disco/110 were.
Disco
> is the softest-riding of the lot, of course, but in a 110 I reckon if I
did
> rear-facing seats I could get 3 rows of 3 in. might do it front-facing,
at
> that; provided I could get access.
>
> And no, I don't want a 101. Well, actually, I do - but to get one and get
> it converted and sorted as a proper bus would cost too much.
>
> --
> Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
> "The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering
> from the strawbuilt shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing
> horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed."
> Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

On or around Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:19:06 GMT, "Rich"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Hi, what about the old large style transit the "A" series they had 16" dual
>wheels also I think the Bedford TK's were 16" but I don't know the PCD
>though, but were 6 stud ..
>

Yeah, I'd thought of A series wheels, but they're gonna be hard to find now.
The standard 7.5T type wheels are too big, in several ways.

need to visit a local scrap bloke, who might have A series wheels.

newer transits are on 15", but bigger PCD and bigger hole in the middle. I
could get round that, I reckon: make or get made an accurate ring of steel,
same thickness as the original wheel centre, made to fit accurately and
chamfered, weld this into the middle, grind flat and then drill new mounting
holes at the right PCD, in between the old ones.

This would work on most wheels, of course. The normal ones seem to be 5.5"
wide. Don't want to go much wider, though 6" would be OK.

There is another possibility, which is to add spacers in between the dual
wheels which will let me fit fatter rear tyres to the existing rims, dunno
how much spare stud there is - it's gonna need probably 10mm more, which
doubtless means longer studs, and they probably can't be got.

'course, I could use SWB LR rims and get someone to make different centres
for 'em...
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering
from the strawbuilt shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing
horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed."
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

Do they have to be duals on the back what about wide singles, there is a
company MJ Engineering did some custom wheels for a purple 101 !!!

Rich

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"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On or around Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:19:06 GMT, "Rich"
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >Hi, what about the old large style transit the "A" series they had 16"
dual
> >wheels also I think the Bedford TK's were 16" but I don't know the PCD
> >though, but were 6 stud ..
> >
>
> Yeah, I'd thought of A series wheels, but they're gonna be hard to find
now.
> The standard 7.5T type wheels are too big, in several ways.
>
> need to visit a local scrap bloke, who might have A series wheels.
>
> newer transits are on 15", but bigger PCD and bigger hole in the middle.
I
> could get round that, I reckon: make or get made an accurate ring of
steel,
> same thickness as the original wheel centre, made to fit accurately and
> chamfered, weld this into the middle, grind flat and then drill new
mounting
> holes at the right PCD, in between the old ones.
>
> This would work on most wheels, of course. The normal ones seem to be
5.5"
> wide. Don't want to go much wider, though 6" would be OK.
>
> There is another possibility, which is to add spacers in between the dual
> wheels which will let me fit fatter rear tyres to the existing rims, dunno
> how much spare stud there is - it's gonna need probably 10mm more, which
> doubtless means longer studs, and they probably can't be got.
>
> 'course, I could use SWB LR rims and get someone to make different centres
> for 'em...
> --
> Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
> "The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering
> from the strawbuilt shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing
> horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed."
> Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

On or around Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:25:32 GMT, "Rich"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Do they have to be duals on the back what about wide singles, there is a
>company MJ Engineering did some custom wheels for a purple 101 !!!
>

2 put singles on the back really requires the other sort of axle. And I've
an inkling of how much the wheels mentioned cost...
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"Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt"
(confound the men who have made our remarks before us.)
Aelius Donatus (4th Cent.) [St. Jerome, Commentary on Ecclesiastes]