<VV> wheel restoration--no longer Corvair

[Chuck Kubin]

I don't see why not. I'd try it if I didn't have a safer, more controlled method in line. I just know that the one time the car will fall off the stands and drive away on its own will be the one time I need it to stay put.
  I have changed ball joints on both EM and LM using the concrete block, flea-market socket and BFH method (A arm on the block, socket on the ball joint, and beat the bejesus out of it with the BFH. Weight of the car and beating on the A arm with the BFH presses them in). FLAPS didn't rent/loan tools until recent years, as you know. 
   
  Sethracer at aol.com wrote:
  
In a message dated 1/10/2006 11:16:22 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
corvair at fnader.com writes:

Following the guidance from an old UK restorer, I bolted the wheel to 
the jacked up Mini, started the car, and put in first gear at idle. 
(WARNING: THIS IS POTENTIALLY VERY UNSAFE AND I AM NOT RECOMMENDING THAT 
ANYONE TRY IT.) 


I polished the outers of a set of gruesome aluminum alloys with this method 
on a 1955 Chevy about 40 years ago. I did use jack stands. Since it was an 
open rear axle, no posi, the open axle acted as a slipping brake. If I pressed 
too hard, it just spun the other side faster. After I was done, my father said 
I was an idiot. Glad he waited. I don't recommend it either but I'm 
older now - probably about the same age he ways. Hmmm? - Seth 
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