Anyone experience the hubcaps of a studebaker rotating in place so that valve stem is almost cut off? My hawk seems to be doing this but only in the front. What causes this and what is the cure?
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Joe Heaney
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Joe Heaney
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There was some discussion about this recently under this here: http://forum.studebakerdriversclub.c...TOPIC_ID=33993
Perhaps its wheel wobble or wheel misbalance causing this as its happening to my right front on my Hawk. The stem gets pinched within 100 miles. I bent the cleats of the cap out to make it fit tighter but that didnt help. Some guys mention putting a spot of weld on the wheel near the stem as a rotate stop. One guy I spoke with replaced his rubber stems with steel stems for this same reason. Any other ideas out there?
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I also put in the metal high pressure stems like pickups run. I did this years ago. No more worries. There still going through high speed spin testing regularly.
Gordon
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Here's a current discussion of the subject.
If your Hawk has non-Studebaker wheels, it will need little bumps to keep the wheel covers from "walking."
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