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General Forums => VW Club Corner => Topic started by: donagh on July 14, 2014, 10:58:13 AM
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Anyone have any experience with placing centre caps on Fucks. I'm stuck due to the dust caps. I have made one work with some massaging with a hammer but can't make the other work with the speedo cable in it. I have used spacers but I'm can't put any more on due to wheel well space. This is on a 61 bus with a stock beam on adjusters with a arkewlds disk brake conversion.
Insanely frustrating, any ideas???
Thanks,
Don
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I ground off the end of my speedo cable. Fits nice now.
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The issue is the dust cap, if I take the duct cap off it works but then no speedo. I need to either get someone to cut out a cm or so and weld up or come up with another creative plan. Seems like this should be a common issue with so many aftermarket wheels on vw's??
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I chucked my dust cap in the lathe, and just cut however much I needed off the bottom. Yes, you lose the lip normally used to remove the cap...but a set of channel locks held onto the dust cap lightly, and a tap from a hammer, always popped it right off.
Just checked...no photos.
-Dave
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Thank you Dave, this makes sense. Now anyone in Vancouver have a lathe I cut utilze? or advice on where I could get this done? Beer or cash??
Cheers,
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Anyone?
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I've used these guys before, West 3rd and Manitoba in Vancouver. Make sure you explain what you want, and get a price on what it's going to cost. I've not had a problem, but once got a reason why they should have charged more.... they didn't as the price was on the work order.
http://www.smithindustriesltd.com/en/