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Old 11-04-2007, 10:32 AM
Tom Howland Tom Howland is offline
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Freddie,

I am not acquainted with centerline wheels. The old Anson Sprint Mags I had were held on with caped nuts and washers. This means no conical lug nut registering in a counter sunk wheel stud hole. My problem was the washer holding the wheel on would allow the wheel to be mounted slightly different each mounting resulting in out of balance. I discovered this by marking the hub and wheel then removing the wheel and installing it 180 degrees from the hub mark. All of a sudden my unbalanced wheel becomes balanced. Just the weight of the wheel while tightening the nuts would shift the wheel enough to change the balance at each install. I spent 7 years and hundreds of $$ trying to get a good balance that was never possible. My new wheels are prefect.

My old wheels were 8.5 in front and 10 in the rear. Now 7.5 in front and 9.5 in the rear. The fronts actually look good now because they were sticking out beyond the wheel well too much. The rears now are too much in from the wheel well. But everything will stay as is because I’m generally happy with it all.

Black is a great color. You can’t do wrong with that. Good luck with everything. Give me a ring if you have any questions.
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