RE: wheels are off

John Lagnese jlagnese at massed.net
Sat Aug 30 17:21:02 PDT 2008


Persistence is when something eventually works, otherwise it's stubbornness.
John

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of Kent McLean
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 4:38 PM
To: quattro
Subject: wheels are off

About a month ago I decided to put the old 16-inch wheels from my A4
on the '91 200.  The fronts went on, barely clearing the UFO rotors.
I figured I was home free.

The rear wheels... I could not remove.  They were frozen onto the
hubs. Once or twice a week for the past month I'd spray the joint
with PB Blaster.  Kick, kick, kick. Raise the rear up on the jack,
drop it on the wheel.  Today, I finally heard a bit of hollow echo
while kicking.  More PB Blaster, more kicking, up on the jack,
drop it (with no lugs), and FINALLY I got one side free.  Yes!
The other side succumbed a little easier.

"Let the tool do the work."

So my '91 200 now has A4 wheels.

-- 
Kent McLean
'99 A4 Avant, w/ quattro, V6, Tiptronic, :)
'91 200 TQA #1, backup car
'94 100 S Avant, "Moody", now with a new owner
'91 200 TQA #2, up in smoke 2
'89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy", up in smoke
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