My first RM Refurb

[laydon]

Just completed my first rm refurb

Came courtesy of E-bay de. Time to spilt them



All done



Back from the painters tried each bolt (had the bbs ones rechromed) in to see if the threads were choked



Ordered a new set of polished and anodised rims from image



Sealed up, is this ok



And finally, now waiting for my proxies T1-R's to arrive

[jte]

   Nice work!

What did you use to seal the rim?

[laydon]

I did quite a lot of research even Image wheels told me to use bathroom sealant, so I did, unibond translucent low modulus bathroom sealant. I did buy the most expensive one as it proclamed a 35 yr life span

[Ads]

Nice work!

How much are them dishes from image and do they have a site?

[laydon]

They were £240 thats inclusive of polishing and anodising I did offset the cost by selling the old outers on e-bay


http://www.imagewheels.co.uk/

[Ads]

so £240 for 4 Dishes but not polished? How much is that to do.

And how much to get the nuts refurbed

[laydon]

No the £240 included the polishing as for the nuts I got a second set from e-bay had them all chromed at the same time £160. Sold a set on e-bay to again offset the cost.

[Ads]

wow thats cheap 

Shame there on holiday for the week, ill order some soon.

How long did it take to strip and rebuild the wheels?

[laydon]

Stripping was the easy part it I used a rubber mallet to separate the rims from the hubs. Attaching the new rims took around 2hrs each as I put the bolts in first to check the threads for paint/crap etc then put and torqued the bolts in a star pattern very carefully so's not to damage them. I have one last job to do the chromers advised me to cover each bolt head in clear nail varnish to protect them, I think if I did this again I would buy the stainless steel bolts.

[mix]