Old style cragar ss vs the new style ss

[TheNovaMan]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: whitetop</div><div class="ubbcode-body">My original were used. Again after lathing the wheels apart some of the steel tab is going to be gone so you have to have a welder build back the steel tab and machine or lathe it down to specs as it would have been before Cragar welded them together originally</div></div> What I can't understand is how they can reuse the rim after they've cut so much metal out of it to free the center. Does a 4&quot; wide wheel become 3 13/16&quot; wide?

[whitetop]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TheNovaMan</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: whitetop</div><div class="ubbcode-body">My original were used. Again after lathing the wheels apart some of the steel tab is going to be gone so you have to have a welder build back the steel tab and machine or lathe it down to specs as it would have been before Cragar welded them together originally</div></div> What I can't understand is how they can reuse the rim after they've cut so much metal out of it to free the center. Does a 4&quot; wide wheel become 3 13/16&quot; wide? </div></div>

You lathe cut from the backside of the wheel along the 5 tab points it is welded to the rim. The outer steel rim is not damaged. What you are cutting is the weld and part of the tabs-why the tabs need to be built up with weld afterward and then lathed down