front hub woes

My luck ran out with J&P hubcap, well ok it was made in china and it almost fit ( 1/2 mm). The ID of the hubcap is 56.5 mm and the hub shaft is 57.00. The gauge if the metal in the hubcap is 1mm. It would look great if I could make it fit. I can't decide whether to cut the inside flange of the hubcap so it can expand over the hub shaft and force it on or just return the dang thing. More bad news now that I have the wheel off I see the inside is gone also. The rear hub looks great, go figure. What a F____ (fill in the blanks) headache.

Can't say I wasn't warned about china parts.

I ended up modifying many of the parts I've gotten that "almost fit". Your call. This sounds like something you might be able to do yourself or take it to a machine shop and have them do it. Might be too much bother and expense, however.

You should have the wheel bearings and spacer inspected. I had to go through all that because I bought a used wheel and hub. It turned out the bearings were still servicable but needed to be repacked with grease.

Breaking news today on the wide glide dirty hub saga,

The hubcap, according to J&P, is designed to be pressed on and it looks as if it just needs to fit on the outer edge of the hub shaft rather than slide over it. J&P advised me to use a rubber hammer. This should be real fun, if it don't work I will just get a bigger rubber hammer!! The lower legs are finished, look pretty nice. What do I use to keep em that way?? Somebody mentioned "mothers wax". What is that??? Also the windscreen has some sort of coating and it has degraded to a very dull yellow look that can be scratched of with finger nail. Any suggestions on what to us to remove it (other than finger nails)? tried Novis scratch remover with limited success.

thanks for your continued interest.

There are a lot of good metal polishes out there. I use Blue Magic. You might have to take your windscreen to a shop to get it professionally cleaned & buffed out as it is a lot of area to deal with.

The tales of this wind screen is unbelievable!!!! The windscreen on the wideglide is Lexan FMR. The Lexan scratches easily and does not weather well so GE came up with this clear coat (Thats the FMR part of the label) that is baked on and has degraded to a foggy haze over time. The darned stuff is impervious to several grades of buffing compounds, go-gone, Beer, Jim Beam, acetone, lacquor thinner and chrome polish, although the Jim Beam did make it appear better. I finally found that a sharp wood block can be used to scratch the stuff off without damaging the Ledxan underneath. Its a darned good reason to go without a windscreen!!!

Wait till you see how the hubcap came out. It looks great, and went on with a little help from a 4 pound rubber hammer!! HRK's help regarding painting the outside cups of the hub made for a nice touch. Very pleased, thanks to all who expressed interest in this thread. Pics coming!!

Ok, here is the end of the front hub woes

Notice the lowers, the came out like new, happy,happy

Looks good.

The spoked wheels are the best looking ones. Never cared for the billet wheels.

Nice improvement on the front hub repair. Looks good.