From the pasture; The valiant story of my '66 Valiant
So my long suffering Valiant project, seems to both grow ever closer to "completion" while at the same time, dancing further away. Not so much of an update, but two things, one of which is more of a general complaint, really.
So as we all know, I bought a set of SBP Cragars a while back. They came with 215/70 and 205/70 tires. Tires are brand new, I'd love to use them if I could, but they seem to be a bit big. Anyone run this size? Rears fit fine, fronts seem to want to hit the upper fender, but I haven't had it on the ground yet to check. I was going to do that, but as you'll see shortly, I couldn't.
So, tire size recommendation? I may lower the front slightly, depending on how it sits once down on all four.
Second.
I fit the passenger side wheels fine. I do like this look. Ignore my messy shop. Its the sign of genius I have been told. I disagree, but who knows.
The problem is, the silly drivers side and its silly left hand lugs. So I had ordered left hand lugs for Cragar wheels quite a while back, but never fit them. Then, when i finally did go to fit them:
Yeah, thats a no from me dawg.
The shank is wayyy too large for these wheels. I called the guy i ordered the lugs from, and looked all over the world. He said something about certain Cragars from a certain manufacturer or time or something, they wouldn't work on. Woulda been nice for you to tell me that, (or list the shank size in your ad) yee ole wheel hardware saleman, but I guess that would be just too much work, eh? Regardless, apparently there are no left hand lugs for Cragar wheels that are this size. So now I guess I'll convert the LH lugs to RH. Shouldn't be hard, just one more thing to do I suppose. I should have, but never did, notice the difference between the two.
Looks like ill have a set of brand spanking new LH lugs and washers for sale if anyone needs them. Off to the corner of the Interwebz to order some RH studs and a different set of lug nuts.
So my long suffering Valiant project, seems to both grow ever closer to "completion" while at the same time, dancing further away. Not so much of an update, but two things, one of which is more of a general complaint, really.
So as we all know, I bought a set of SBP Cragars a while back. They came with 215/70 and 205/70 tires. Tires are brand new, I'd love to use them if I could, but they seem to be a bit big. Anyone run this size? Rears fit fine, fronts seem to want to hit the upper fender, but I haven't had it on the ground yet to check. I was going to do that, but as you'll see shortly, I couldn't.
So, tire size recommendation? I may lower the front slightly, depending on how it sits once down on all four.
Second.
I fit the passenger side wheels fine. I do like this look. Ignore my messy shop. Its the sign of genius I have been told. I disagree, but who knows.
The problem is, the silly drivers side and its silly left hand lugs. So I had ordered left hand lugs for Cragar wheels quite a while back, but never fit them. Then, when i finally did go to fit them:
Yeah, thats a no from me dawg.
The shank is wayyy too large for these wheels. I called the guy i ordered the lugs from, and looked all over the world. He said something about certain Cragars from a certain manufacturer or time or something, they wouldn't work on. Woulda been nice for you to tell me that, (or list the shank size in your ad) yee ole wheel hardware saleman, but I guess that would be just too much work, eh? Regardless, apparently there are no left hand lugs for Cragar wheels that are this size. So now I guess I'll convert the LH lugs to RH. Shouldn't be hard, just one more thing to do I suppose. I should have, but never did, notice the difference between the two.
Looks like ill have a set of brand spanking new LH lugs and washers for sale if anyone needs them. Off to the corner of the Interwebz to order some RH studs and a different set of lug nuts.
