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Looking for rims for an older Komet Trailer. 14 inch Lemerz 1447-1.
Have checked junk yards and internet, no luck as yet. Need a dealer in the U.S. Can anyone help? The U.S. Komet dealer ony has 13 inch. Gary |
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wrote in message oups.com... Looking for rims for an older Komet Trailer. 14 inch Lemerz 1447-1. Have checked junk yards and internet, no luck as yet. Need a dealer in the U.S. Can anyone help? The U.S. Komet dealer ony has 13 inch. Gary FWIW, Jeep Grand Cherokee 15" wheels (1993 - 1994) fit my old Komet perfectly. Bill Daniels |
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Plymouth Horizon wheels fit perfectly..(Plymouth Horizon also had drum
brakes....many wheels for disc brakes will not have the proper "Dish" and won't work as well....you should find these easily at most auto junk yards......nifty trick, go to the junk yard.if they have any of these old cars there look in the trunk.you may still find wheels with space save spare tires.....the wheels are the same on the horizon spare as those on the ground.....but space save spare wheels and tires are virtually non-saleable,,,,,so you might get brand new wheels (toss the tires) for a song.....I did.......but it was a while back...likely most Horizons are now crushed and have reappeared as Hyundai's ) tim Wings & Wheels www.wingsandwheels.com wrote in message oups.com... Looking for rims for an older Komet Trailer. 14 inch Lemerz 1447-1. Have checked junk yards and internet, no luck as yet. Need a dealer in the U.S. Can anyone help? The U.S. Komet dealer ony has 13 inch. Gary |
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I followed this tip and upgraded my old 1978 Komet trailer wheels a
couple of years ago with a trip to a vehicle recycler (ok, junk yard!) I not only got bigger rims that tracked better and raised the trailer over a hump in my drive, I got newer tires too. Mike |
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Thanks Tim I will try this, since I haven't a good eye and don't know
what I am doing, I have tried recommendations for Saturn, Honda, VW Rabbit and Mercedes. Tim Mara wrote: Plymouth Horizon wheels fit perfectly..(Plymouth Horizon also had drum brakes....many wheels for disc brakes will not have the proper "Dish" and won't work as well....\ Wings & Wheels www.wingsandwheels.com wrote in message oups.com... Looking for rims for an older Komet Trailer. 14 inch Lemerz 1447-1. Have checked junk yards and internet, no luck as yet. Need a dealer in the U.S. Can anyone help? The U.S. Komet dealer ony has 13 inch. Gary |
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The day our LS-3 arrived at the docks in the U.S. in its Komet trailer
in early 1978, I got a call from the owner of its sister glider, which had arrived in the same container, that the dockworkers had stolen most of the wheels. At that time, the factory placed the axel and wheels inside the trailer before loading it into the container for ocean transport. Said owner grabbed the two available wheels (probably the spare bolted inside each trailer, although he assured me he was taking only what was actually inside his trailer g) and wished us well. My father was due to arrive at the dock the next day from Ohio to pick up our glider. I contacted several people for help. Rudy Mozer drove out to his shop that night and measured the wheels on his trailer to get me the dimensions. Someone pointed me at the Opel Kadett, an Adam Opel AG model imported by GM and sold in this country by Buick. With these two pieces of information, my father was able to procure two wheels & tires from the local Buick dealer the next morning and, after clearing customs and negotiating with the dockworkers--who, in a threatening manner, insisted they hadn't stolen anything--was finally on his way about 3 minutes before the port closed for the weekend...just in time to drive up from Philadelphia to where I lived in New Jersey in the middle of a blizzard. The NJ Turnpike was closed to trailers so he crawled up through New Jersey on the local roads. I finally met him at Teterboro airport past midnight and we got permission to stash the brand new trailer there before grabbing some sleep at my apartment. The next morning we drove back out to Teterboro, dragged the trailer around to where the snow plows had cleared a swath through a parking lot, and pulled the fuselage out to sit in our beautiful new glider, shivering but grinning at each other, under a brilliant, post-winter-storm blue sky. The temperature was far below freezing, my dad was 12 hours from home, and he didn't have a spare for the trailer. But it was a great moment. Some years later I blew a tire and rolled the rim up at 3:00 AM in Wyoming on the way to the 15M nationals at Minden. A junk yard in Salt Lake City provided a spare wheel/tire for $10 with no other information than "it fits a 1970s Opel Kadett." Some moments in soaring are highs. Some are lows. Many prove memorable over time. Chip Bearden ASW 24 "JB" |
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