Make your own 8mm wheel spacers in less than 30 minutes

Thread in 'Technical Questions' started by steady eddie, Jul 14, 2010.

  1. steady eddie

    steady eddie Member

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    Knocked these up this afternoon... price zero, time taken less than 30 minutes.
    Only tools needed are an angle grinder

    Pair of scrap front disks:

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    cut off the face:

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    Dress them and they're ready to fit:

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    Primative, but they'll work :smash:
     
  2. milez

    milez Active Member

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    Never thought off this! Really good idea mate.:thumbs:

    Driftworks needs more off this imo
     
  3. Daddy_D

    Daddy_D D1 street king

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    Well done I vote 10/10 for this idea. It will come helpful one day. Shame a friend of mine threw away his old ones few months ago.
     
  4. Sturge

    Sturge Active Member

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    LOL great thinking batman!
     
  5. shaiz

    shaiz Active Member

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    If they're 8mm I think you'll need longer wheel studs to fit them safely, depending on which car they're for.
     
  6. way2fastforu

    way2fastforu Member

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    was jus thinkin bout this today wen i was lookin at an old pair discs in garage ya'd def need longer wheel studs tho
     
  7. counteract

    counteract -o=me

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    Great idea!

    I'm loving this current grassroots spec approach to everything, it's great! Awesome!!!!

    :thumbs:
     
  8. Bladerider

    Bladerider Ajudged scoundrel !!

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    Why not just mask round them and cut it out of MDF

    then you could have them any thickness ya wanted !!

    Works for Charlie Dimmock :wack:

    :D

    J.

    Nice one btw :thumbs:
     
  9. bryan fain

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    thats awesome!!!! i like the way you think
     
  11. skyline

    skyline Active Member

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    brilliant idea mate but just threw a load of old ones away :(
     
  12. cookwibble

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    good idea!

    just need some 5 stud brakes now!
     
  13. Captain Muppet

    Captain Muppet Pro-tard

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    The last pair of aluminium slip on spacers I bought were a fiver for 5mm thick. It's not worth my time to make them when I can buy proper ones for such a small amount of money.

    On the other hand, if I wasn't working all the time and had no money at all...
     
  14. croustibat

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    They were a fiver for "approx 5mm thick but not the same thickness everywhere".

    These are perfectly straight and perfect fit, and that makes it worth it :dw:

    I thought of doing that too, but i could not be bothered changing (and finding) the studs.
     
  15. steady eddie

    steady eddie Member

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    I looked at the ali multi-fit spacers but prefered the proper fit of these, as they are from the car originally.
    You'll definately need longer studs for anything over about 4mm I'd say (obviously different brake disks will be made of different thinkness metal)
    Not too sure about MDF but if you want to try it I'll be interested in the outcome :)
     
  16. Captain Muppet

    Captain Muppet Pro-tard

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    No, these ones fitted just fine, had flat faces and everything. I'm an engineer, I check stuff before I fit it to my car. Your x-ray-magno-vision must be faulty when you use it to look back in time at events that have already happened.

    FFS.
     
  17. croustibat

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    nearly every cheap spacers, from ebay or not, are quite never perfectly parallel, nor flat, and get distorted when the wheel is installed. Just saying they are just before your wheel, and it implies they are part of a critical system that could kill you when failing. If it is not perfectly flat, parallel sides, perfectly centered, balanced and so on, they will ruin the bearing at the very least. I just cant recommend to use cheapos like that. (I also dont like spacers but some made from a brake disk will be much much much better than any cheapo aluminium cheese made from ebay)

    There is a bit more at stake than just a cheap/counterfeit pen that could leak ink... and while my x-ray-magno-vision can miss, my palmer cannot.
     
  18. GTnomez

    GTnomez New Member

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    Great idea!

    Could easily be done for other cars aswell!

    Hellaflush ftw!
     
  19. TR.

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    So what a brake disc modified with an angle grinder is going to be "perfectly flat, parallel sides, perfectly centered, balanced, and so on" is it? More so than a spacer which somebody has actually manafactured for the sole purpose of being a spacer...?

    Don't get me wrong, if I didn't have an epic collection of spacers and adaptors already I'd probably do this just for a laugh and an excuse to play with my angle grinder, but I have to agree with Captain Muppet that this is basically stupid... however quite cool.
     
  20. RyanH

    RyanH Lacks skills

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    Haha, i was just thinking this.

    Chances of joe public in his shed managing to machine a disk flatter than a lathe/CNC machining shop using an angle grinder....... hmm!! :wack:
     

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