Any way do you know of anyone running these? All ways looking for some pin drive wheels for a build . Any help would be super.
Gary Meaders had a set on his '32 yellow sedan. They safety wired the knock off because they had a tendency to loosen. Dave made everything with the best materials & the wheels were expensive and rare. they have been out of production for 15-20 years. Haven't seen any for sale, I got a pair of 15X10 rears that had been damaged from the knock off coming loose, they need way more welding & machine work to repair than the egay seller admitted. I think the hubs & hardware is similar to the knock offs that Boyd produced. The wheels were similar in design to ET and there are bolt on copies available. SoCal has some Halibrand copies that are knock off & PS also has some in KO & bolt on.
because of inertia and the mass/weight of most knock-offs, it is imperative that the threads on the driver's side are the opposite of the passenger side. Both must be threaded so as to cause the knock-off to tend toward tightening. Driver's side should be LH threads, and passenger side RH. This is the reasoning behind lugnuts on Mopars, Studebakers and a few others I can't recall. I've never physically seen a Mehelich KO wheel, so I'm unable to comment on how they were configured. Just know that all the Euro vehicles with KOs OEM (Jag, A-H, MG, MGA, AC, etc) were set up this way. Most were stamped with an arrow denoting the direction and the words DO or UN-DO depending on side.
The above paragraph needs to have the words "when braking" inserted right after the word tightening in the 2nd sentence. sorry
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