1929 Chevrolet International - 4 Door Sedan Project by BearsFan315

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well got a letter in the mail today from Bill (Uvira)
he refunded my money, as well as cost to ship my reflectors out to him !!
he asked that i send him the set that was sent to me on accident. I am good with that, and hope they find their home

Have to say Bill has provided me TOP NOTCH customer service and i truly appreciate that !! something that you do NOT see or get much anymore anywhere.

now just have to wait for my reflectors to get done at the plater.... ZZZzzzzz

5-24-2019

well decided to clean up the chewed up threads on the hubs, as well as chase the threads on my new repro hub caps. problem is they are 2-3/8-16 threads, which is non-standard as well as being a big thread. after talking to a few machine shops around and figuring would have to go lathe, i found a tap and a die on ebay the tap said it was used but in great shape, the die was listed as new. they arrived and when i opened them up they both looked  new never used !! got them from 2 different sellers funny thing they both were in California :) got them for a good price considering they usually run about $200-250 each !! that is my price through work.

got them in last nigh and cleaned/chased the threads on the hubs

oh yeah in order to chase the hubs, i did not have a large enough wrench 3.75" across flats to get on the die, so i got it started by hand. then had to use my strap wrench to spin and thread it on. that worked great. i backed it off and ran one more time to ensure clean threads. now it goes on and off completely by hand !! man what a difference !!!

try to tackle the hub caps this weekend...

2 3/8-16 Die on the left, Tap on the right...

a front hub cleaned up

a rear hub cleaned up

took and chased the threads on the repro hubcaps tonight. that tap cuts that aluminum like BUTTER !!

was very easy and simple to do. i secured the tap in my bench vise, then get the cap started on the tap and used my strap wrench and threaded each one on till it bottomed out. then back it off.

now they screw on very easily and smoothly on the hubs i cleaned up last night !!

Tap secured in bench vise

first hubcap started on the tap

using strap wrench to thread the hubcap

nice clean full threads !!

test fit on front hub