Uzi Crooklyn

does anyone know of a machinist that would mill my wheels down? basicall the back side of the wheel needs to be milled 15mm or so. is that something that a machine shop would do?

thanks in advance

slow4banger

I'll talk to my boss tomorrow, and see if he'd let me do something like that. It wouldnt be hard to do, I just need permission to do side work.

Fabrik8

I really hope you're talking about the hub mating face and not the spokes, and that you have a lot of material to work with. 15mm is a shitload of material to remove from a wheel.

jdm monkey

so ur basically adding offset? would you have enough material to "seat" your lugs?

Uzi Crooklyn

after reasearching and actually measuring the lug hole to the back of the wheel, i have maybe enough room to take off 5mm, so this thread is useless, 5mm won't help me

nope lol, but yes i need to add offset.

BAN HAMMER

pm Nftuatn, he had some wheels machined if I remember correclty.

jdm monkey

dependeng on what wheel you have, maybe u can use hub centric lugs instead of the tapered ones.

THIS


instead of this


you probably have bolts but u can buy yourself studs so u can have some nuts (pun intended)

Uzi Crooklyn

even if i get hub centric bolts i still don't think i can take off 15mm

Daft Punk

The Machinist. He was damn good at his job.

Chris28

For what it's worth, Cycle Specialists in Newport News is the only place on the peninsula that would even consider machining my wheels. I needed the hub bore enlarged due to it being smaller than my hub, and no place would even listen to what I needed done due to liability issues.

Would it be possible to shave 5mm from the wheel and say 10mm from the brake rotor/mounting surface? Maybe even 5mm from the wheel, 5mm from the front of the brake rotor, and 5mm from the hub?

Safest thing to do is get new wheels haha.