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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Tires Removed from Rims

Today's lunch time project was to get the tires off, which was done by the good folks at the local Firestone tire center. Let the air out of all five tires before taking them over, and boy did the air inside small bad! However, once the tires were off, nice to see that the wheels are in good overall shape. The paint inside almost appears to have been painted by a brush, or is that due to the tubes? In the next couple of weeks they should be off to a specialist for soda-blasting, and then I'll be painting them back to their original Limestone off-white colour (as per the top-most rim seen here).


Two views of numbers stamped on the wheels: the first is the year of manufacture, I assume.

The second is the wheel part number, described in my Land Rover Parts Catalogue as "Road wheel, well base rim type."