Does this make my car a bus?
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Re: Does this make my car a bus?
A slightly improved installation method. Note the red fibre washers under the bolts to allow some give and a pair of spring washers underneath that act as spacers as well as providing tension to prevent the bolts turning.
This allows me to leave the centre cap of the wheel in place. Hubbo is firm. You cannot move it. [attachment=2]IMG_20201119_182719-1000x564.jpg[/attachment]
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This allows me to leave the centre cap of the wheel in place. Hubbo is firm. You cannot move it. [attachment=2]IMG_20201119_182719-1000x564.jpg[/attachment]
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Re: Does this make my car a bus?
The Mechanex brand is back and this time with a more suited set up. I made the bracket out of a discarded power window regulator frame cut to size as it had a hole suited to the much larger stud of this hubodometer.
It looks convoluted but it sits right on centre and the nut at the back of the hubbo clears the wheel surface by a hair's breadth.
It looks convoluted but it sits right on centre and the nut at the back of the hubbo clears the wheel surface by a hair's breadth.
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Re: Does this make my car a bus?
It's not a bus!
It can be anything you want it to be!
It can be anything you want it to be!
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Revitalised tired looking lenses with this clear coat I got really cheap at Aldi, like this one. It was scratched up and opaque looking before a gave it three coats of this. Now like new again.
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I had a purpose to this one. It's meant for a typical 11-22.5 tyre size majority of buses use, but it was sometimes orbiting when I turned it by hand. I mounted an action camera to see what it was doing.
Upon playback it worked fine and stayed level. After several kilometres it now moves freely in my hand. The trip loosened it up successfully.
Upon playback it worked fine and stayed level. After several kilometres it now moves freely in my hand. The trip loosened it up successfully.
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Here's a classic with nice aged yellowing in the lense.
This would look like heaven on a Leyland Worldmaster.
This is an old one. Manufacturing date of August 1975.
This would look like heaven on a Leyland Worldmaster.
This is an old one. Manufacturing date of August 1975.
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A recent fit. Hubodometer dates from 1982. I bought it because it has pure blue throughout and the old type numeral with bent out metal top and bottom. Some have a, silver panel taking up ¼ of the face. Later ones from the late 1980s on have a lensed piece of plastic over the numerals facing up slightly to make reading the mileage easier. These are probably the best hubodometers ever designed. Unfortunately Danaher Controls, owners of Veeder Root hubodometers, have cheapened the internal materials of the instrument, replacing metals with plastic and I've read customer's accounts of unreliability with these later identical looking units.
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Here's what I meant with the updated numerals. The later one on left has a clear lense that slightly magnifies the digits and makes the mileage easier to read standing from above saving bending over as much. Very thoughtful upgrade.
This one is in KM for 10:00 x 20 tyre. Dated 1975.
Made up a more elegant bracket for this older hubbo with the broader mounting stud using a flat piece of aluminium. Looks great.This one is in KM for 10:00 x 20 tyre. Dated 1975.
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Found this deconstructed Engler Hubodometer done by a student.
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Look what I discovered and no, it wasn't staged.
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Re: Does this make my car a bus?
Stemco Street.
Veeder-Root Boulevard.
Oddball Corner
Bracket Close.
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Re: Does this make my car a bus?
Does this make my car a Leyland? This is a similar way they used to be fitted.
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It's baaackkk. I'm so weak. Can't help it.
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Re: Does this make my car a bus?
Thanks for keeping the thread alive. You must have a decent collection of hub-o's
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Maybe it's time to put it to rest, in light of the lack of replies, but mainly because I just realised it's been 10 years since I started it.
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Re: Does this make my car a bus?
One I cut open to reset. I was given this by Westbus and have swapped faces as I like the older black one better.
I love the aged look of the yellowed polycarbonate lense.
I used JB weld to reseal it back together.
I love the aged look of the yellowed polycarbonate lense.
I used JB weld to reseal it back together.
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Re: Does this make my car a bus?
Success. Wound it to 5000 km ready to sell.
Suits 10:00 x 20 and 11R22.5 tire size IE: most buses and heavy trucks.
Suits 10:00 x 20 and 11R22.5 tire size IE: most buses and heavy trucks.
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Re: Does this make my car a bus?
In tonight's episode of Does This Make My Car A Bus : an Engler from 1980 with 340K. 9 years older with 140K more than the bus car.
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A better shot showing it in sunlit splendor. Wish it was on a Leyland.
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Accu-Trak Hubodometers Production.
https://youtu.be/84TVUGz21B8
https://youtu.be/84TVUGz21B8
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Re: Does this make my car a bus?
I think it looks more like a semitrailer ha ha
Parrahub, an extra option in the public transport menu http://www.parrahub.org.au/
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I've only ever seen these on semi trailers.
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On a Leyland rear hubcap just as I remember them from my childhood in the 1980s.
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Let the fuel savings begin!
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Re: Does this make my car a bus?
Surely an old Laser automatic would be more in the category of an Allison?