Re: 14/15 inch wheel nits

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Yes they changed the center hole at some point in the late sixties early seventies.
I have a nice set of 15X4" stude wheels I wanted to use as front runners on the American, but the centers need to be cut out to so they will go over my 83 disc hubs :[ $60 in the wheels with shippping from CA and they don't fit!
 I'd like to have the set of classic wagon wheels for the 65 Ambassaodr as Imay stay drum brakes with it. Garry Jacob over in Baltimore has offered to make me up a set of rings to fit the 83 rotors and weld into the centers of the stude wheels. I just never seem to have the time to do it.
Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV

 
---- Colin Hillyard <chillyar@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
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> > From: JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: 14/15 inch wheel nits
>  
> > I was getting ready to junk a 62 Classic wagon with
> > brand new tires.  In order to save the tires and 15
> > inch wheels I thought I would swap wheels and tires
> > with a 76 Hornet old lady car I picked up last week.
> > When I tried to put the 15 inch wheels on the Hornet,
> > they would not fit because the center hole was too
> > small.  Until that time, I had thought all AMC wheels
> > were interchangeable except for backspace issues (like
> > on the Eagle).  The 15 inchers were original to the
> > Classic (original matching paint).
> > 
> > Joe Fulton
> 
> 
> Joe,
> this is a guess on my part, but i know the area around the grease caps
> got a little thicker in '71 when AMC went to the new single piston
> calipers. this is based on the '71 version of the machine wheel centre
> cap retainers being different, slightly bulged, versus the '70. haven't
> measured the difference, but maybe enough to cause this? 
> -- 
> Colin Hillyard
> Oakbank, Manitoba, Canada
> 
> Member of the AMC Manitoba Car Club
> check us out at www.amcman.com
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