What cha don't see ya don't need to know about it Rich. So I can hide 5% of my restored Stovebolt and no one
is the wiser.
Phill, just get some 5/8 square aluminum bar from McMaster and cut your wedges 1 3/4" long and at 14°. That
should put them pretty close, although you may need to shim them or touch them on a belt sander. You can
stuff a camera inside from the back and snap a picture to see if the locking lip is engaging fully in the clip.
If you have chevy rims.....then all you need to do is make a standoff from some alum round stock with a 3/16"
hole drilled thur it.
Tried that 10 years ago Grigg. Got some spring steel from McMaster and made a whole batch of taller clips
for the Chevy rims and tried heat treating them myself. Lacking a good oven some got to hard and I couldn't
draw them back to a temper some just didn't get hard enough. After a lot of frustration I settled on the factory
made clips from the vendors and a few simple standoffs. They've held great all these years and the caps
snapped on and off just like on the original rims.
Leather shims Bart. The original 3600 caps have a little over 9/16 locking lip and the reproduction caps are a
little under 1/2" so you have to shim them different. The leather also conforms to the slight radius on the boss and make the wedge sit good and solid. I use 10-32 x 1 T25 Torx head screws with nylock nuts on the back side
and they sit rock solid.
dg
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