Morgan Sports Car Tyres, Rims & Wire Wheelssearch

**WHEELS & TYRES** **Morgan Classics (1950-2004)**
**See FRONT SUSPENSION INDEX & STEERING INDEX**
1. BEARINGS 1.01 Check the Front Bearings 1.02 Front Grease Seals 1.03 General 1.04 Installing I 1.05 Installing II by Timkens Bearing Co. 1.06 Packing & Installation 1.07 Pre-1991 1.08 Post-1991 1.09 Rear Bearings I 1.10 Rear Bearing II 1.11 Rear Bearing III 2. KNOCK-OFFS 2.01 Alloy Knockoffs CAUTION 2.02 Tightening the Spinners I 2.03 Tightening the Spinners II (Tools) 2.04 WATCHPOINT Ken Miles 2.05 Worn Splines 3. Terminology 4. TYRES 4.01 Age Code 4.02 Bible 4.03 Codes 4.04 Construction, Types & Pressures 4.05 Flat Tyres 4.06 GRADING OF ALL TYRES 2012 4.07 Low Versus High Profile Wheels	4.08 Pressure 4.09 Rotation 4.10 Speedo Concordance (old to new tyres) 4.11 Size Converter (Vintage to New) 4.12 Size Converter II (Vintage to New) 4.13 SIZE, VARIATIONS & THEIR EFFECT (My Favourite!) 4.14 Speed Ratings Their Importance for Moggers 4.15 System for Selecting Tyres 4.16 Testing for Your Correct Pressure 4.17 Tyre Recommendations 4.18 Tyre Replacement (which ones?) 4.19 Tyre to Rim Width Calculator 4.20 Vintage Patterns 4.21 What Different Wear Patterns Indicate 5. WIRE WHEELS 5.01 Balancing I 5.02 Balancing II 5.03 Balancing III 5.04 Changing to Wire Wheels Experts Panel 5.05 Checking Wire Wheels and Adapters 5.06 Dissolving Hardened Wheel Grease 5.07 How to install Wire Wheels by André Koopmann (in German) 5.08 How to Install Adapters 5.09 New Wire Wheels 5.10 Old Wire Wheels 5.11 Paint, Powder Coating, Chrome or Stainless 5.12 Powder Coating Wire Wheels Webmaster and Experts Panel) 5.13 Replacing the Tyres 5.14 Rims (checking)	5.15 Rusting Wire Wheel Rims 5.16 Spoke Length Calculator 5.17 Truing 5.18 Truing Spokes II 5.19 Wire Wheels & +8 Myth Experts Panel 5.20 Wire Wheels & Plus 8s (2) Experts Panel 6. WHEEL CARE 6.01 Bolt Torque 6.02 Cracks 6.03 Checking the Tyres & Wire Wheel Rims 6.05 Coating Wire Wheels Webmaster & Experts Panel 6.06 Dissolving Hardened Wheel Grease 6.07 ElectroPolishing 6.08 Maintaining 6.09 Nuts 6.10 Stripped Nuts 6.11 Torque Sequence 6.12 Torquing 6.13 Tyres Rubbing SuperForm Wings 7. WHICH WHEELS 7.01 Bolt Patterns (Matching) 7.02 Calculating Offset 7.03 Calculating PCD 7.04 Low Versus High Profile Wheels 7.05 Morgan Center Lock Alloys 7.06 Speedo Calculator 7.07 Spigot Diameter

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