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Straightening bent rims

Subject: Straightening bent rims
From: flaatr at yahoo.com (Raffi)
Date: Thu Jul 15 12:22:08 2004
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Some of us don't have the time/space/patience/talent to 
straighten/paint/polish multi piece wheels... Considering what they are 
costing me and how long I searched for these exact rims I don't want to 
damage them!

-Raffi


At 08:55 AM 7/15/2004, Allyn wrote:
>why is everyone set on going to a wheel repair place?
>all you really need is a dead blow hammer and some method of spinning the 
>wheel to check for trueness. i use a portion of a rear axle beam with rear 
>rotor installed. the rotor gives me some leverage if a wheel is VERY bent 
>and i need to slip a jack between the rotor edge and wheel lip.
>Al
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