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[Stu1961]

Hi All,

 

Have just tried fitting my new 7.5" discs (Mini Spares) and am having an issue with them rubbing on the hubs not the friction area but inside the top hat area of the disc, they are ok until you tighten the hub nut any more than finger tight (Will not be able to tighten them to any degree as subframe is out of car).

 

Hubs have been rebuilt using Timken bearings and as far as I am aware everything else is fitted correctly. 8.4" discs were fine before rebuilding but have since given them to the tat man so I can't see if they fit ok on my hubs now.

 

Cheers for any help in advance.

 

Stuart

 

Will put some pictures on photobucket shortly and post a link.     

[Stu1961]

Link to pictures in Photobucket, hope link works, let me know if not thanks for looking.

 

 

 

 

http://s1195.photobu...?sort=3&page=1#

[alex-95]

Theres been a few problems with this, I think the majoritie fix it by Where it's rubbing on the hubs, give them a good wire brush and try again, if this doesn't fix it file a bit where it is rubbing.

[miniman24]

From what Ive heard its just chance as to whether or not 7.5" discs fit on 8.4" hubs - the hubs on the original Cooper S were slightly different, but most 8.4 hubs will accept 7.5 discs, but some do catch. On mine, a NOS set of discs did the same, but a new Minispares set went on fine. I suppose you will have to take a bit of metal off the hub.

[Stu1961]

Thanks for the reply's, 1/2  hour spent with a file on each hub hopefully sorted now.

[sonikk4]

Thanks for the reply's, 1/2  hour spent with a file on each hub hopefully sorted now.

That's pretty much what I had to do although I used a die grinder. It does seem to be a common thing but a couple of minutes with whatever tooling you decide to use fixes the problem.

Mine is set up on the car and has worked well for the past two years.