Hub Covers For Sale: T Kane

[hobobimmer]

Debbie and I are replacing our T Kane hub covers with RWC hub covers. We are going to try to sell the T Kanes. If you are interested, please contact us. We will price fairly and ship to you or maybe deliver to you if you're fairly close (or maybe even if you're not real close).

Thanks.

eric and debbie faires
huntsville, TN

[Loc]

Eric,

What are RWC hub covers? I tried a search and I am certain that Rugby World Cup has nothing to do with the product. Do you have a website or picture? I am looking to upgrade my hub covers, but have shied away from the T. Kane because of the hassle of removing to check the hubs.

Loc

[hobobimmer]

Eric,

What are RWC hub covers? I tried a search and I am certain that Rugby World Cup has nothing to do with the product. Do you have a website or picture? I am looking to upgrade my hub covers, but have shied away from the T. Kane because of the hassle of removing to check the hubs.

Loc

I believe it to be Real Wheels Corporation, phone 800.982.1180. Sales person Deb talked to is Bjorn. The style Deb ordered is over the lug. We don't have yet.

eric faires
huntsville, TN

[Jon Wehrenberg]

I'm not sure what Eric means when he says over the lug. But I have a RWC type hub cover and it is a center mount using a spinner type nut to hold it in place. Mine cover the hubs only and I have the push-on lug nut covers.

Apart from the cosmetic differences between hub covers it is important to consider two things. It needs to be easy to check the oil level in the hubs. If a hub cover is difficult to remove a technician will avoid checking hub oil levels. The second concern that I would have about hub covers is avoiding any fastening method that uses a bracket located under the lug nuts.

Prevost made a huge objection to that in the early nineties when those types of hub covers first came to the marketplace. The reasons stated was the brackets affected and prevented proper torquing of the wheel nuts, and brackets could contribute to cracking of the aluminum wheels because the forces on the wheel from the nuts would not be equal around the stud hole, but could be concentrated in one spot. It is my understanding the converters squelched further objections from Prevost so that issue was not brought up again to my knowledge.

The T Kane type covers look nice and certainly making it easier to clean and polish wheels, but they are a PITA to remove and replace and I would be tempted to not check hub oil levels if I had to deal with them.

[Petervs]

I have the Real Wheels covers on my coach. They cover the wheel hub and all the lug nuts with a smooth polished stainless steel unit that is much easier to keep clean than the original individual plastic caps over each lug nut. Check out their web site for details.

They come with very well made brackets for attachments. These brackets clamp with a knife edge onto the outer exposed thread sticking out from the lug nut itself. So, you must have a thread showing, as was discussed in the other forum thread ( no pun intended). Their clamp actually grabs two adjoining lugs, and there are two brackets per wheel. Then, the cover screws onto the bracket with two 1/4 inch stainless steel screws. I use loctite on mine.

This is why I made the comment about milling down the lug nuts if the stud does not show a thread exposed. There has to be many multiples of strength safety factor on the lugs, bolts, and studs holding the wheels on as designed. As long as they are tight and properly torqued . The actual number of threads engaged on each nut/stud is not likely to be critical if you machine one or two threads away out of 10 or 15.

Real Wheels set me up as a distributor when I bought mine a few years back, they offered about a 20 or 25% discount. I have passed that along to 2 other POG members so far with good results, and would do the same for anyone else interested.

[dalej]

and would do the same for anyone else interested

Except for Brian, right Peter.

[BrianE]

Dale, Peter actually ordered my Real Wheel hub covers for me. The discount was nice, the downside was having to listen to his expert advice on how to install them properly. Kidding aside they work very well and are easy to install and remove. They do need 2 fully exposed threads beyond the lug nuts however in order for the brackets to clamp securely to the threads. In my case it was necessary to machine about 1/8" from 4 of the lug nuts on both ends of my tag axle. As Peter said, I don't feel this will compromise the integrity of the nuts.

[Loc]

Peter,

What is the cost for a steer, drive and tag axle set?

Loc

[dalej]

And Peter, can you show us a photo?

[BrianE]

Dale,

Don't mean to preempt Peter here but he's in Canada on his boat. Here is a link to Real Wheels, Cover-up model: http://www.realwheels.com/coverup.html. Also here are some pics of the covers on a nice 8V machine.