Bought new 205 wide5 Drum

I stripped a wheel nut on one and need to replace it. I bought this one. https://www.cip1.ca/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=VWC-113-501-615-J5 but the lip where the nut goes on is seriously about 1/2" higher and there's not enough room for the cotter pin. I'm going to machine the 1'2" off this weekend and see of I can do it Sunday when we get back. The new drum is nice though, seems better steel than the other one which is about 4 years old. This one is shiny steel as opposed to painted black.

Hecho en Mexico....

Why double post?

Hi, Mike....

Take the drum to an automotive machine shop and ask them to machine the nose to be the same as your old drum. THAT way, they'll machine it flat for you and the nut will go on without warping it or anything. I found, when I was messing with my rear drums, that even a very little un-trueness on the drum nose, when torqued down with the big castle nut to 325 foot lbs, would distort the drum face (where the wheel mounts) a few thou. and make the run-out at the rim lip to become significant.

A decent machine shop can do it in a few minutes and it should cost around $20 CDN.

gn

Thanks Gordon. I was thinking of getting Jos

Mike:

If her Dad thinks he can mount it on the lathe spindle so that it's true (he'll know what is and what isn't) then, sure....let'em rip! Removing something like that is pretty straightforward, but the automotive shops have attachments for their spindles that can accept (and keep true) various ID's on the drum - some of the attachments are even tapered to accept a variety of widgets needing work so set-up time is minimal for the guy doing the work.

What kind of farm does he have? We had a New England dairy farm when I was a kid - little over 600 acres, good size for NE, but couldn't afford a decent machine shop until we got out of farming and went into school buses.

gn

He grows feed corn. Last farmer surrounded by housing developments now. They have had the land for about 150 years just east of the island of Montreal. 250 Acres. The corn is sold through the COOP at agreed price and it's up a lot from last year although there is a pig farmer that travels to buy who supposedly needs 60 tons of feed a day for his pig farms and buys from independent farms. Pays cashola, so her dad is excited about that.

He just bought a new Deutz farm tractor with electronic whizz-bang stuff. So I went in with the manual and proceeded to experiment with buttons until we sort of got it right.

Turned it myself. Her dad had a fitting that expanded to the inside diameter of the drum easily and off I went. Lookin' good.

Mike - you got some mad skilz!! Good luck with your project!

Had fun, didn'ja???

gn