Hello, starting my wish list for Hershey. Putting a set of 26/27 wires on a 1914 I'm building up from parts. It will still be fairly correct as I found an original touring body after 20 years of hunting. Can anyone recommend a good and inexpensive tire for the wheel? Also I was looking at the rim liners. Lang's seems to point you to a skinny little rim liner for the wire wheel. Why would you use the same over the wide rim liner for the wood wheels? Thanks and see you at Hershey.
wire wheels use the skinny lil liner, you'll need to buy a set of 25 back style brake drums (small) and buy them from a dealer who has had them set-up for 26-7 wire wheel hubs as a 14 has a small drum rear-end, and the 26-7 wire wheel drum is big drum
A while back I bought new, small, brake drums to weld in the existing mounting holes and then to redrill to mate up with the 27 wires. Is there only one skinny rim liner per wheel? Doesn't seem like much protection. Any benefit to putting a wider rim liner in? Or any problems in putting in a wider rim liner?
Just the rim strip (narrow) usually is fine with '26-'27 Ford wire wheels. These Ford type are 'drop center' so the thick 21" tire carcass fills the sides of the inside of the wheel rim.
The only remaining metal is the drop center, that is where the rubber narrow strip should be placed. Rim strip protects the exposed tube from rubbing on the metal center of the rim. If the wheel centers are very bad rust pitted, then maybe a flap would help with tube protection, but normally isn't needed with low pressure 21" tubes.
There is a difference between a "rim liner" - the skinny little thing, and a "flap" - the "wider thing" if you will. They serve different purposes on different wheels.
If history repeats itself, you will soon be reading a variety of thoughts....bear in mind that these different words are sometimes confused by different posters. Good luck interpreting the answers!
Dave
Sorry Ben,
I truly thought by now there would be lots of replies. In their absence, you might take a look at past discussions:
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/50893/77875.html?1231450683
or
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/118802/170425.html?1289825824
or
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/257047/274247.html?1331549813
Hope those help.
Dave
Why don't you build your 14 with a large drum rear axle? It will fit nicely, simplify your hubs and give you real emergency brakes.
The wide flap has a use for the 21" demountable split rims - they protect the tube from being cut by the split. The wire wheels are rough where the spokes are welded to the rim - a narrow rim liner is usually enough to protect the tube in a wire wheel.
Roger is right. 21" split rims should have a rim flap, for the reasons he stated. Flaps are for use in split rims and flat based rims with lock rings as used on the TTs. They are there to protect the tube from the joints between the various parts of such rim/tyre combinations. The only thing needed in the wire wheels is the narrow strip in the wheel well to cover any rough spots on the ends of the welded spokes.
Allan from down under.
Thank you. A narrow rim flap it is for the wire wheels. I like the brass cars so I will use 27 wire wheels on the 1914 for something a little different and the wheels will get a little color (not black). Outside of that change which can be rather easily undone, the car will be fairly accurate for a 1914 even though it is an assembled car. See you in Hershey!