Wheel weights Repair time

[Stigian 1,234]

Evening all, one of the jobs i have been wanting to sort out for a while now is to stop my wheel weights/duel wheel adapter 's from rattling.

Rattling you ask? well when i built them i filled them up with a dry-ish sand, cement and stone mix, the idea was the moisture in the stones and a bit of condensation forming would set the mix hard over time.

Can you guess what didnt happen

Over time the dusty stuff found its way out leaving space for the stones to move about

Time to sort it out

Step 1 - Use large rubber hammer to remove the weights from the wheels and wonder if a mouse has built a house in the wheel.

Step 2 - Laugh and take photo of 4 balls of grass that fell out

Step 3 - Dump both weights on the bench and wonder how they got so dented

Step 4 - Break out the hole cutter and try to break in to the weight.

Step 5 - Wonder why after 5 minutes of drilling ive not broken in to it yet

Step 6 - Have a look at the hole cutter teeth to find this

Step 7 - Put the new (well it was before i started) but knackered hole cutter back in its case and make some sparks with a grinder

Step 8 - Empty the loose contents of the wheel weight all over my boots and legs

[Stigian 1,234]

Step 9 - Stop coughing from Step 8 just long enough to wonder how Garry managed to get a small Ford Pick-up pierced through his neck on the way back from getting a barrow load of sand

Step 10 - Drink some water (not coffee ) to stop the coughing and take an action shot of Garry mixing the mix.

Step 11 - Look daft while laughing at using an old lampshade as a funnel

Step 12 - Stand back and look at the mess we have made

Step 13 - After letting the new improved wheel weights set for a few day (an ideal time to try and wash out all the metal grindings/dust/cement/sand/concrete mix that has set/got into hair/ears/armpits/add body cavity to taste/perversion ) clean off the the muck so the square-ish plates that were cut out can be welded back into place.

Step 14 - Forget to take photo of the finished wheel weights but if you imagine sqaure-ish plates welded on and lots of dents on this early pic then your close

And........

Step 15 - Hope the wheel weights will fit back on the wheels when i come to put them back on B)

[kj4kicks 151]

As usual, great pics and well narrated !

Thanks for making me smile....

:whistle:

[combatmp29r 27]

Excellent work Ian. A pleasure to read as always B)

[CasualObserver 3,406]

Took me a second there on that last pic... i thought maybe you actually made invisible seams! But rest assured... I can see the dents and squares (in my head) now! B)

[DMESS 24]

:whistle: I hope Gary got that pick up out of his neck! Good laughs as usual Ian. B)

[Curmudgeon 28]

Keep us abreast of how it comes out, Ian.

Don't feel too proud of those grass nests though, they seem to accumulate behind any kind of wheel weight, but I'll never admit to that disadvantage of them.

[Stigian 1,234]

Cheers for the great comments guys

The good news is not only did the wheel weights fit (just), but we also managed to get the pick-up out of Garry's neck. I just put it in reverse and floored it B)

[Curmudgeon 28]

B)