Re: mail Digest for 19 Nov 2004 in hour 14:00

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you can get spacers from any wheel shop in 1/8" increments. Might be metric (25.4 mm = 1"), but will work all the same. Toyota and one or two other Japanese makes use the 5 on 4.5" wheel stud pattern like AMC. 

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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:53:15 -0500
> From: neprocap@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: magnum wheels
> To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Wade,
> The original AMC spacers are about 3/16 to a 1/4" thick. I don't think you can 
> get wheel spacers that thin from the auto parts store. The last time I needed 
> spacers (original spacers can be a little hard to find), I was going to try 
> cutting them out of old (bad) rear brake drum centers. They are about the right 
> thickness and they already have the lug pattern cut into them. All you would 
> have to do is cut them in the right diameter. I never did try this idea so I am 
> not sure if it would work. 
> 

> Has anyone tried this idea?