Babymoons on HF wheels---Has anyone else done it???

[LDK]

I know of one forum member (georgeandpat) that did it successfully. I tried to replicate what he did but it didn't turn out very good. Actually the hubcap was on there really good but that was the problem, it was on there too good. It took alot of beating and banging just to get it off. When I did get it off it was dented and distorted. The plan calls for the wheels to be drilled and tapped with 4 quarter twenty round head bolts. It has to be position at the right place to hold the lip of the hubcap. I even tried to grind the bolt heads down some but that just made it where the hubcap didn't want to stay on. I even scoured the internet looking for hubcap clips and bought some but when I got them I realized they wouldn't work. I have even thought about trying to make some clips and if I did, what should I make them from?? If anyone has any ideas, please chime in.
Thanks

[Sparksalot]

I used the friction fit version from Hubcap Mikes on my wheels. They look and work great.

[LDK]

I used the friction fit version from Hubcap Mikes on my wheels. They look and work great.

Did you use it on harbor freight wheels?? The problem with mine is the bearing hub sticks out almost 2 3/4". My hubcaps are about 9 1/4" dia. and have a 1" shoulder before it starts the curve. It just barely clears the bearing hub. I'm just gonna have to make some homemade hubcap clips to solve this problem. The question is, what to make them out of??

[reo-ron]

You can get hub cap clips from Wheel Vintiques or Wheel Smiths. They are like the vintage 30-40's style wheel hubcaps retainers.
Ron

[reo-ron]

Most of those trailers use a 4 1/2 inch bolt circle wheels which are the same as old mustang & falcon 13" and 14" wheels also old mopars & AMC use this wheel. The 13"" are hard to find but 14" started in 1957 on Ford passenger cars and continued thru the early 80's. The 50's - early 70's have a center section that will take a nice baby moon type hubcap. I find most of mine at swap meets
Ron

[Sparksalot]

I used the friction fit version from Hubcap Mikes on my wheels. They look and work great.

Did you use it on harbor freight wheels?? The problem with mine is the bearing hub sticks out almost 2 3/4". My hubcaps are about 9 1/4" dia. and have a 1" shoulder before it starts the curve. It just barely clears the bearing hub. I'm just gonna have to make some homemade hubcap clips to solve this problem. The question is, what to make them out of??

I have a Red Trailers platform, instead of the HF. I never noticed the hub causing a problem, but also realized you are talking about baby moons and not the full moon disks that I used.

[tomsglr]

I read on another forum once that someone drilled a hole in the center of the hubcap. It didn't look too bad.

[LDK]

I believe I'm just gonna try to make some homemade hubcap clips out of aluminum. I have alot of flat stock aluminum left over from building my camper. I have 1/16" thickness and 1/8" thickness. Who knows, maybe that will work.

[parnold]

Larry:

Hub cap clips are usually spring steel. At highway speeds, I would be real nervous about aluminum clips.

[LDK]

Larry:

Hub cap clips are usually spring steel. At highway speeds, I would be real nervous about aluminum clips.

Darn it Paul, you put doubt in my head. What about thin 1/16" iron? Might be able to use a big vice and a hammer to bend it.

[parnold]

How about these?

http://www.amazon.com/OES-Genuine-Hub-Cap-Clip/dp/B001G7NFA8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327624385&sr=8-1

[LDK]

I ordered some like these thinking they would work. Wrong.



They are way bigger than I thought.

[treemaker]

Maybe early VW clips?

[LDK]

Maybe early VW clips?

I wonder how big they are?