Rim Flipping

[skippy]

Pro's, Con's, Experiences, Opinions needed.

There's a dude up the street running flipped rims and it "appears", and i use that word lightly, to be an easy way to get a little bit of track width happening.

As it's 1:45am and I've not really paid much attention to the rim faces, nor am I going outside in teh cold to look, please feel free to bring on the flames if this seems like a rediculous notion.

The brain thinks of strange crap at this hour of the morning when you can't sleep.

[Damo]

The wheel stud holes have a taper that the wheel nut sits in. This is present on the outsite of the wheel only. I think that taper is there so the nut hits the wheel with more surface area, so if you flipped the rims maybe you would have a problem keeping the wheel nuts tightened.

[wanna]

i take it your talking about cutting the center out and reversing the outer if thats right i,ve done it run it for a long time great for extra width and its a poor mans bead retainer the inner safty bead is wider so when its on the outside of the car its harder to pop a bead off

[wanna]

i take it your talking about cutting the center out and reversing the outer if thats right i,ve done it run it for a long time great for extra width and its a poor mans bead retainer the inner safty bead is wider so when its on the outside of the car its harder to pop a bead off

[camskizook]

doesnt that make it harder to pop the tyre on though

[wanna]

i take it your talking about cutting the center out and reversing the outer if thats right i,ve done it run it for a long time great for extra width and its a poor mans bead retainer the inner safty bead is wider so when its on the outside of the car its harder to pop a bead off

[skippy]

no I'm not talking about cutting the centres from the rims or the topic would have been "cutting wheel centres and flipping them and re-welding them".



smart arse stuff aside though, I had though about this but for the effort required I would rather do that to a different rim.


I'm purely talking about taking the rim and tyre and flipping it around.

[Slunnie]

I've got mine on backwards also, though I don't drive it much. I've heard of issues relating to the nuts coming loose, though if this is the case it would take about 5mins to machine tapers into the opposite face of the rim centre to prevent it. I've picked up roughly 4" of extra track running the rims backwards.

[greg]

this maybe a silly question, but if you are worried about the wheel nuts coming loose - couldn't you run the wheel nuts backwards (with a flat face touching the rim) and run some "lock" washers? That would fix it right?

[Damo]

You might be onto something there Greg.

Another thing that the tapers would do is centre the wheel properly. The way to get around this would be to put 2 or 3 nets on taper first to get the wheel centred then put the other nuts on flat first and tighten. Then take the tapr first nuts off and back on flat first. The wheel might still move though.

I have a set of stock 15" rims, i'll prolly end up trying this at one stage.

[skippy]

I have tapered nuts which should theoretically centre the rim.

will sniff it out this weekend if I have time left over after the ute mod.