View Single Post
  #5 (permalink)  
Old 03-30-2003, 03:16 PM
427SSSS's Avatar
427SSSS 427SSSS is offline
CC Member
Visit my Photo Gallery

 
Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: Atascadero, CA
Cobra Make, Engine: Hi-tech body/frame, 427engined FF5/302engined FF5 Bennett 289 & 427 rolling chassis
Posts: 539
Not Ranked     
Default

SCOBRAC,
the link you posted goes to your photos, here at CC, not a thread???

JR Pennell
I don't have Trigos, I do have the Trigo alignment tool.
I have Compomotives from Hell, shipped with the wrong backspacing twice, the third time, total of 10 months+/- later, they are correct, look real nice, and I'll NEVER order Compomotives again.

Bud Man
It's not each individual pin/hole that is the problem, it's with such a close tolerance on each, (each/any of my pins will go into each/any hole) but once all five pins are on, it's a bear to get the wheel on/off.

Fred Douglass,
Got my pins from Compomotive, they are soft, first tap with a hammer and I realize I needed to use a wood block between the hammer/pins.
They also wobble and end up in 5 different directions as JR Pennell's did.
With out the alignment, there wouldn't be a chance in hell of getting these things on.
I've already considered having some made out of tougher material.

MY QUESTION REMAINS- DOES THE TOLERANCE NEED TO BE SO TIGHT? CAN THE HOLES IN THE WHEELS BE ENLARGED A LITTLE TO ALLOW THE WHEEL TO GO ON/OFF EASIER? Just a little honing of the holes.......
__________________
Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Reply With Quote