What Are You Doing To/With Your Car Today?
This is really crazy, but I had to give it a shot. I have two rallye wheels that I bought sight-unseen from a junk yard years ago. When they arrived, I stuck them away in the attic without doing much inspection until I needed them. I recently pulled them out to start getting them ready to mount tires. What do I find? Both of them are rust pitted horribly along the outer flange bead, and I'm sure they were like that when I got them. I just didn't pay enought attention to them when they arrived from the junk yard. Well, they are so doggone expensive I sure wasn't going to just throw them away. A couple of wheel shops just shook their head and said no way! I sand blasted them, and you can see the extent of the pitting. The seal shoulders are slightly pitted, but not like the flange.
Rather than toss them, I figured I have nothing to lose trying something totally wierd. I mixed up a batch of JB Weld and went to town on gooping the stuff on with two fingers on a gloved hand. 24 hours later, it was totally cured.
Next, I used my DA sander to smooth out the cured JB Weld, leaving only the material that was filling in the pits. I made one more pass of JB Weld with a small amount on my finger just to "preen" the surface and fill in any pits I had missed or over-ground with the sander. This time I hand sanded it with 60 grit to get it to a smooth and uniform surface that I thought I was ready to try to mount a tire.
This is what the final product looked like. The tire shop mounted the tire, aired it up, and 4 days later its still holding air.
This is really crazy, but I had to give it a shot. I have two rallye wheels that I bought sight-unseen from a junk yard years ago. When they arrived, I stuck them away in the attic without doing much inspection until I needed them. I recently pulled them out to start getting them ready to mount tires. What do I find? Both of them are rust pitted horribly along the outer flange bead, and I'm sure they were like that when I got them. I just didn't pay enought attention to them when they arrived from the junk yard. Well, they are so doggone expensive I sure wasn't going to just throw them away. A couple of wheel shops just shook their head and said no way! I sand blasted them, and you can see the extent of the pitting. The seal shoulders are slightly pitted, but not like the flange.
Rather than toss them, I figured I have nothing to lose trying something totally wierd. I mixed up a batch of JB Weld and went to town on gooping the stuff on with two fingers on a gloved hand. 24 hours later, it was totally cured.
Next, I used my DA sander to smooth out the cured JB Weld, leaving only the material that was filling in the pits. I made one more pass of JB Weld with a small amount on my finger just to "preen" the surface and fill in any pits I had missed or over-ground with the sander. This time I hand sanded it with 60 grit to get it to a smooth and uniform surface that I thought I was ready to try to mount a tire.
This is what the final product looked like. The tire shop mounted the tire, aired it up, and 4 days later its still holding air.