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Larry & Norma

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Spare wheel support
« on: October 09, 2009, 08:05:53 »
Does anyone have a dimensional drawing of the spare wheel support in the boot(trunk). Mine has been converted to take an alloy wheel and i need to convert it back to take a steel wheel. Thanks
Larry Hall (Gnuface)
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Naj ✝︎

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Re: Spare wheel support
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2009, 13:47:20 »
Can you post a picture of it?

Might do a swap...

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Re: Spare wheel support
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2009, 08:27:09 »
Hi Naj. Here is the photo's. The support has been cut and welded and the position in the boot changed perhaps? It is a very solid mounting.

Larry
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Re: Spare wheel support
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2009, 18:24:56 »
Naj, I guess you are not interested in swapping the support. Maybe you could post some pictures so that i can get an idea of how to
return mine to standard. (Or indeed any one who has photo's) Thanks
Larry
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Re: Spare wheel support
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2009, 22:07:13 »
Hello, Larry,

Cannot decide whether to change to alloys or stay with steel wheels  :-\

Here's a pic.
Maybe you can work out the height considering the depth of the wheel chock.
Unable to measure one at the present time...

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Re: Spare wheel support
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2009, 18:13:47 »
I have the bundt-cake alloys on my '66 250SE/coupe. I chose to keep the spare on the steel wheel for this exact reason. The spare is only used occasionally, and if I get a flat, I wouldn't keep it on for long, so the 'strange' look with three alloys and one green steel rim would never last for too long.
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Re: Spare wheel support
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2009, 07:56:46 »
I would still like some more photos of a standard support at different angles so that i can work out how to un-modify the post. Anyone help?
Larry Hall (Gnuface)
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1970 280SL