Wheel Woes not a Worry!

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PETROLHEAD
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Wheel Woes not a Worry!

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Apologies for the silly title, but here's just a quick idea for those like me (and Pat) that aren't a slave to standard and fancied a steering wheel smaller than a Leyland Tiger's!


There's loads of steering wheels out there, but the availability of boss's and adaptors for our slightly strange 3 bolt Sud steering column are slim pickings.

I'd got a lovely Momo wheel for Pat's sud, but no boss, but looking at it, i though how hard can it be?

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I had an old Mountney wheel with a Sud boss already attached, so i removed that, and ground the profile off the front face so it was flat (if my lathe was up and running i'd work around that as a locater)
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Next, i'd got some nice 5mm alloy plate, pretty nice stuff, and measured and marked it up for the Sud pattern and the Momo pattern, and of clourse it would work for any other pcd of mounts too.

Pillar drill, 6mm threads tapped in, an voila, one Momo to Sud adapter plate. The plate mounts in descretely from the back, then the wheel from the front. I spaced the wheel pcd so that it is multi positional for options on alignment, but also in a few position it completely cloaks the plate mounts too just for smartness.

I left the centre of the plate whole, and a nice alfa logo would look the bee's knee's in there, seeing as we don't need the luxury of a horn, this was an easy decision :P


Finally, not knowing Pats thoughts on interior decorating, rather than paint it, powder coat it, or any covering whatsoever, i assumed safely that i can't go far wrong with a good buff!

So here it is

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SHREW

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Alfa Romeo 33 1.7 ie, Giulietta QV, 159 ti Sportwagon, Daihatsu Charade Turbo SR

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Re: Wheel Woes not a Worry!

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Lovely work Shrew. A very nice touch. 8-)

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Thanks mate :D
SHREW

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Alfa Romeo 33 1.7 ie, Giulietta QV, 159 ti Sportwagon, Daihatsu Charade Turbo SR

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Great work Shrew, looks good in alloy.

Me and the chief engineer (well the latter really) did the same a long while ago, but we added a 10cm tube to bring the wheel closer to the drivers seat. In typical old engineer style, he did it with 10mm steel......car was twice as heavy after. :shock:

But it worked.

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Im very pleased with it mate, you done a top job on it .
I wont put it in the car until the shell is painted but thanks for doing that for me.:)

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No problem Pat

It was a nice way to spend a little time compared to most of this week! :lol:
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Wow, great work Shrew! Looks amazing!

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