Quote Originally Posted by Bony View Post
So if you merely used a file how did you ensure the wheel will run truly on its intended axis of rotation Frank? Your modification seems rather imprudent (if not dangerous) for a road going vehicle at highway speeds (and open an opportunity for litigation should the unthinkable happen)
Wasn't planning on attempting to pull a farm trailer with a linch pin hitch down the highway at 100MPH which would be about how fast you would have to go to even notice the few thousand's of an inch the wheels might have been off the central axis of rotation. badly out of balance tires will show more wheel hop than these would had they been as much as .060" off center. The difference between the 2 BC diameters and the smaller diameter of the studs on the trailer was almost close enough that I could have hammered the wheels on the studs but that would have damaged the threads and would have put the studs in an angular stressed position.
Also my reason for putting the flat side of the lug nuts against the wheels was because the wheels did not have conical contact holes just flat faced this gave me maximum surface to surface contact without inducing side stresses on studs from the conical nuts.
We drove between 45 and 50 MPH most of the way but a couple times going downhill I let it roll on up to 60 I was more concerned with possibly having to change out the remaining 50 year old tire on the front axle if it blew out along the way which if it had I would have just removed it and chained up that axle