How to Keep Hubcaps from Moving

[Andydodge]

Don, I'd suppose it would be like kids, I like kids but........the trick is in the sauce, generally tho a light grilling after a couple of hours in a marinade..........tho' I suppose a car dealer would have a stronger flavour being somewhat older than kids.......lol............you be a sick puppy Don......& so is me too...............lol........andyd

[Dodgeb4ya]

Way too thin of ice for me to run across!

[soth122003]

Man you guys are twisted. Kinda like me. Every one says I'm sick and twisted, but that's not true. I have the heart of a little girl.

 

In a jar... on my desk next to the computer.

[Joe Flanagan]

Who knew the subject of hubcaps was such a slippery slope?

[David Strieb]

I've stopped wandering hupcaps by bending the tabs so they have a tighter bite on the wheel. I also use steel valve stems.

[Dan Hiebert]

The hubcaps moving is a "simple" physics thing.  Not an issue of radials vs. bias-ply or flexing of the rim.  Same principle as the "spinner" hubcaps you see nowadays.  No matter how tight your hubcaps snap onto the rims, if they aren't physically fastened to it, they'll spin to some extent.  Tire and rim turn - accelerating, braking, changes in speed, etc. - hubcap resists.  The heavier the hubcap, the more it resists, full covers are more prone to this, too.  Normal vibrations help loosen them up.  Our car has steel valve stems, so we don't have an issue with the full trim ring damaging them, although I do remove them and reposition them so the stem is centered in the hole every year as part of my ritual when winter breaks.  Only way to prevent it (or reduce it) is to increase the friction between the hubcap and the rim.  I've seen strips of inner tube cemented to the hubcap where it contacts the rim work fairly well.

[Joe Flanagan]

I'm going to order some of the caps today. Yet another flat tire this morning. 

[Joe Flanagan]

I just found out that Bernbaum doesn't carry these anymore. What they had was NOS and they're all gone. They might have someone start making them again if they can find someone to do it. Just thought I'd pass that on.

[Dodgeb4ya]

Why do  hubcaps on some of the old plymouths "creak" loud when slowly going around a corner?

[51cambridge]

Humm that's what the red rvt was on the rim for when I did brakes

[OldDad67]

Hum... I never glazed a car dealer. How does it taste?

I've audited many dealers over the years as a Rep and some of them could really sweat, so i don't think the taste would be great, probably too salty.

[OldDad67]

I've also heard but never tried the 3m double sided tape placed on the edge of the cap prior to installation will help this problem.

[Don Coatney]

Question? Is stem breakage more or less of a problem with tubeless tires compared to tube type tires?

[BobT-47P15]

You might check with Antique Auto Parts in Denton, Texas.   

 

Also with Frank Mitchell Mopar, who sells on eBay.  

 

or Neil Riddle,  Seaplym on eBay.

[Joe Flanagan]

I just got a set of these and I can't for the life of me see how they would work. Unless I have the wrong size, it looks like they just sit on the rim and protrude through the hole in the hubcap. Doesn't this mean they will move when the hubcap moves? Chet offered an explanation further up the thread but I'm not sure I followed it. 

[DJ194950]

Come on Joe, with all the engineers at Mopar, they found  solutions to problem areas and new stuff before any other car company!

 

It's a Wonder they made a profit in the earlier days with all them engineers on the payroll. Was the US gov. paying them back then?

 

DJ

[Dodgeb4ya]

Put em on and see if they work Joe.

[Joe Flanagan]

That's what I will do and I will let you know what haopens.

[soth122003]

Dodgeb4ya said: Why do  hubcaps on some of the old plymouths "creak" loud when slowly going around a corner?

 

Well buddy, I'm 54 years old and I creak loud when I get off the couch. (insert rimshot here)

 

On that note, I noticed that my steel rings are slowly walking as well. I'll have to try and get some of those valve stem things too.

Edited September 13, 2014 by soth122003

[JerseyHarold]

On the subject of hubcap creep:   I found two different gripper styles on '51'52 Plymouth full wheelcovers.  Could one design have been more prone to creaking (or creeping, for that matter) than others?

[plymouthcranbrook]

I have metal stems. They hit them and stop

[BigDaddyO]

Get hubcaps like these;

[iowa51]

I have metal stems. They hit them and stop

X2

 

I have tubeless tires.

 

Went to a tire store that sell tire for large trucks/semis. They had a metal stem with a base that was big enough to cover the oval hole on my rim.

[Dodgeb4ya]

^^^^ I've done this too and it works.