Welcome back once again as we continue
on in our pile wheels that we need to fix. Last week we did a rotted out wheel
that had been left outside way too many years. This week we have a wheel to fix
that went through a wreck we started to show you that last week. This is a wheel
that we were working on, so I'm gonna go ahead and get this wheel taken apart
we'll get into this and then part way through I'm going to stop and kind of
address a little topic that shows up. So here we go. Well, you remember a while back, when I
turned a new hub core for a sarven flange? Remember just how I fitted those
flanges to the core? Well, this is what I looked for. So, this is the sarven flange style. You remember in that video, I'm looking for contact at this shoulder, right here, to this shoulder on the core and then at this point here, on the
outside end of this flange, is where I want contact. This part, in between, there's an open cavity there.. There isn't contact contact with the flange. And the same thing goes with the back end. This part of the flange has contact here. This part of the flange has contact here, but this cavity between the two is an open
cavity and when you drill a hole straight through, and this part of the
flange you're drilling right through this open cavity, and you put a grease
zerk here, well this whole cavity begins to fill up with grease. Well this boxing is pressed in. There's two points of contact also. The point of contact on the bell, and then it is, there's fairly decent contact
here where the fins are, but where the spokes come in, there's an open cavity
and then there's contact for the last inch inch and a quarter on the small end
of the boxing. Well this inside is opened up, and there's a cavity there, so that when the spokes come in to the core, that they don't come in and hammer on this boxing and could possibly break the boxing. So this is left open on purpose. Well, when this boxing is bored straight through it allows this cavity here also
to fill up with grease Well, this grease begins to permeate this whole inside
core as you saw on this wheel, how full of grease it was? Well, when this becomes permeated it loosens the bond on this Well, when this becomes permeated, it loosens the bond on this boxing and it loosens the bond on the
flanges. Well the flanges stay intact because they're riveted, but did you notice on this hub, when I took it apart? There was no boxing. It was so full of grease, permeated between the boxing and the hub core that it allowed this boxing to
back out. so that boxing was not in this So that boxing was not in this hub. It's still on the axle of that buggy. So the question kind of remains as you
watch this, probably thinking, Why in the world that I do,
leaving that hub, in all those different pieces in that hub core? Well, the main reason is, actually there's two kind of reasons. One is my assessment of the customer that owns this buggy wheel, and the fact that there
was no boxing. See this boxing is already see, this boxing is already predrilled, so when this owner comes, if
he calls ahead of time, he hasn't come yet to pick up this wheel, I'm gonna make
sure that he goes to his axle and finds that boxing. I don't think he knows that
it's still there yet, so I can build this wheel, put that hub core back in those flanges like you watched me do, and I can take this boxing and I can rotate
it 90 degrees and put those fins into fresh wood in that core. That inside core is still machined to fit this boxing and it will take a tight fit. Now, where this
has already been drilled for that hole for the grease fitting, it's going to be
90 degrees off, which is actually a good which is actually a good thing, because I'm going to talk to him
about this. Get rid of those grease fittings. It's not that difficult to jack
up the wheel, slide it out, put your grease on put it back in. This grease
zerk fitting idea really is not the best idea. As I just explained, your filling
areas in that hub that should not be that should not be filled with grease. So I mentioned that I took into account the, what I assess to be what I assess to be the character of the customer. He is what I would say is, an old-school cowboy type of guy. Now a number of years ago, back in
the 90s we ranched for a while and leased a place of a rancher who had died,
and we leased it from his sister, and as I got to know that place, I got to know the original owner of that ranch. He was an old-school old-time cowboy type of guy. You've heard the phrase, it's
it's the cowboy way? Well this place was Well, this place was put together the cowboy way. Hinges were made out of scrap wagon tires and bent old railroad ties and whatever could be
conjured up. He made this place hold together. He made do with what he had and I respected that, and admired him for it. Well, the gentleman is of that same school. He's an old-school, old-time,
cowboy type of guy, who would say, in my estimation, doesn't have to be fancy,
it's gotta to work, just get er done. And so, that's what I assess this hub to be
in that category. It wasn't broken apart, where there were pieces missing.
There weren't big gaping holes. When I put it back together with glue and put
the flanges on it they were fairly snug. I added glue to the outside of the hub
core to take up any kind of slack between the hub core and the flanges and
then once the spokes are in, I'll put some bolts in temporarily to hold it in place so I put the rivets in, but this hub core will work. It'll get er done. And when we put that boxing back in correctly and I talked to them about
these grease jerks, This wheel will certainly work. It doesn't have to be all about
thrills and frills. It has to work. So, we'll just get her done. Well, from here I'm going to go ahead and just finish out the process of building this wheel
and we'll get her put together and it'll work. Well, two takeaways from this video is
one, don't mess with these new modern grease zerks and just drilling holes and
thinking it's going to work. Just grease them the way they're supposed to. And secondly, not everything has to be brand new nd ideal. Sometimes you just need to get er done. Thanks for watchng! you
