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Well, for those of you who may have seen my posts previously, i had a '71 144s which i was struggling with getting on the road. that has all changed now. i just bought a 1971 volvo 142s for $300 that had no starter and a broken rear spring from Bigfork, MT. we pushed it down the lady's driveway and popped the clutch and on the third try, it started. i drove it down to the gas station an eighth a mile away and put $20 of regular into it, and drove it the 46 miles or so home to Coram, MT. since then, i have taken the starter, rear springs, wiper moter, and about month-old-barely used points and condenser out of the distributer all from the old 144 and put them in the 142. now it runs even better. it has the weber carb conversion kit (thank the lord), a decent radio, fiberglass spoiler in front :D, foglamps, and two white racing wheels that say "ENKEI aeronautics" on the wheel centercover. these are my problems. the car came with 5 wider steel wheels, not the narrower ones. the tire size for the narrower ones(i have a set that is on the 144) is about 165R15 and for the wider ones its about 205R15, same as the front racing wheels. i have 4 studded tires that came with the car, two on the back wheels, and two in the trunk, along with the three unused steel wheels. now, the problem with the racing wheels is that they have a center lug nut cover thingy, its plastic and seems to be spring loaded. friends suggusted pushing in and turning to the left, but it doesn't seem to want to turn. the plastic cover is flush with the surface of the wheel. the wheel is white with six spokes, but they are in parallel pairs that swoop, or arc backward. also, the wheels are "mirrored" or whatever, so the left is a mirror image of the right, for example: if a wheel is, say, a fancy hub cap or wheel and it has 10 spokes and the wheel is on the left side of the car, and the spokes point backward, kinda. now, you take that wheel and put it on the right side, and then the spokes point foward, because there was only one design for that wheel, so they only have to make one shape, not two. well, mine is not like the example. it is really two unidentical wheels because they are made to be on their respective sides.
for many people that whole explanation was very confusing and didn't help any and you should probably just ignore it. somebody might understand it, i'm just trying to discribe the wheel exactly
anyway; i need to know how on earth to get those wheel covers off because the tires are nearly bald and i need to get new tires anyway, and i don't want the guys at Les Schwab tire to mess up my nice free racing wheels.
I already looked at ENKEI.com and they don't have any info on discontinued wheels, or customer service, and there's no wheels like mine on Ebay. as of saturday, august 14, 2004 @ 1:52 pm Mountain time.
if anyone wants, i can e-mail pics of them, if it'd help. any advice would be apreciated. thanks,
Ben
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'71 144s, '71 142s
p.s. ^is it ok to list a car if it has been degraded to a parts car?
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