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Finished Refurbing My Wheels And Calipers!!


a98pmalcolm

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Hay all.

 

Ok as some of your know through my previous threads i was plannig on refurbishing my wheels and repainting my brake calipers.

 

Well during my week off i spent from Wednesday through to Sunday working very hard on them with blisters on my hand ans all muscles aching i think it was worth it!

 

Were is some before, during and after pics for you lot to have a look at :)

 

 

Some of the equipment:

 

 

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Wheels Before:

 

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Stiping the wheels and cleaning and replacing all rim bolts:

 

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The result of tightening 160 bolts as tight and i could with a socket set:

 

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Repainted the calipers back withe a blue Supra sticker with silver outer:

 

 

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Respayed the centre caps silver and new logos for the inners:

 

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And the Finished Result! :)

 

 

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nice job, ive just done mine ,i thought my arms were gonna drop off .what did you use to seal the polished lips ?

 

where did you get the centre cap logos from

 

i havent as only only rubbed down 2 lips... one lip hasnt been sealed fora while but as i polish my wheels once a week anyway i will be happy without sealing them

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Is there a good way of removing all the lacquer from the alloys as the ones on mine are peeling and would be good to try and strip it all off to re-do?

 

I used a drill with a sanding attachment! becarful not to puch to hard! i did and made an indent so i have to smoth them off.

 

With the drill attachment i went side to side!

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They look great mate but didn't you use a torque wrench to tighten all the bolts, its very easy to over tighten these size rim screws and then stretch the threads.

 

I've had a search and it looks like 24/26 ft/lbs of torque is recomended for the 2 piece BBS LM rim bolts

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yer i just did them as tight as i can, bearing in mind there not rim bolts i used. I used normal M8 stainless steel bolts with zink plated nuts.

 

The polishing kit is for drills and it came from halfords £16.99 but i'll be honest....its pretty naff! lol

 

The supra stickers came from my local graphics maker "ant graphics" only set me back £4. i do get on with them well so they always help me out with the price!

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