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Hi all,

Having difficulty finding wheel locating pins for the rear drums of a 96 ducato Hymer motorhome. You know the ones that the wheel sits onto before you attach the wheel with the main five wheel bolts. Any suppliers out there..mine have been rounded off and are getting harder and harder to loosen each time I have to remove the rear drum.

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Tony
 
May I suggest the larger locating rod that screws into the wheel bolt holes. I have one of these for my Coop. An easy option, wheel slips over the long rod while you do up the other bolts. Last time I looked, about six quid from fleabay.
 
taffybloke said:
Tony. Do you need them? If you fitted after market alloys they would have to be removed to fit the wheels.


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Searching the Ducato forum for information about the wheel locating pins, I found this thread and Taffy's question as to whether they're needed goes to the heart of my question. I rotated the wheels on my second-third-or-maybe-fifth-hand 2008-9 low roof Ducato but was unable to refit 3 of the four with two locating pins in place on each of the wheels. So I removed a pin from the three recalcitrants and was able to complete the job, seemingly with all well.
But I'm nervous: are two wheel locating pins per wheel necessary?
Does my having removed three out of four of them such that those three wheels each have a single locating pin, now, where each of those three wheels had two locating pins before I went to work on them give me cause to have a professional tyre fitter remedy the situation?
 
pgh said:
Searching the Ducato forum for information about the wheel locating pins, I found this thread and Taffy's question as to whether they're needed goes to the heart of my question. I rotated the wheels on my second-third-or-maybe-fifth-hand 2008-9 low roof Ducato but was unable to refit 3 of the four with two locating pins in place on each of the wheels. So I removed a pin from the three recalcitrants and was able to complete the job, seemingly with all well.
But I'm nervous: are two wheel locating pins per wheel necessary?
Does my having removed three out of four of them such that those three wheels each have a single locating pin, now, where each of those three wheels had two locating pins before I went to work on them give me cause to have a professional tyre fitter remedy the situation?
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Once the wheel studs are snugged down properly the locating pins aren't doing anything. Lots of cars don't have them. jimbos suggestion of a larger pin is the way vw do it on a lot of cars its much easier. You could cut the head off a partially threaded bolt to make one.
 
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corcai said:
Once the wheel studs are snugged down properly the locating pins aren't doing anything. Lots of cars don't have them. jimbos suggestion of a larger pin is the way vw do it on a lot of cars its much easier. You could cut the head off a partially threaded bolt to make one.
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Thanks, Corcai, for confirming what I'd inferred from taffybloke. I appreciate it.
 
jimboy said:
May I suggest the larger locating rod that screws into the wheel bolt holes. I have one of these for my Coop. An easy option, wheel slips over the long rod while you do up the other bolts. Last time I looked, about six quid from fleabay.
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Bit late,,, but. I would like something to hang the wheel of my duc based moho on while setting wheels for re fixing. They are so heavy its a pig of a job! Was going to adapt a wheel bolt, but does some one make one ready to go?
 
I too bought 2 of 16mm X 1.5mm pitch, 140mm long part threaded bolts (strictly speaking, they are not bolts but set screws!) for less than a fiver. I will grind down the heads and round off, maybe put a screwdriver slot in them, so these should do the job.
 
Ocwobio said:
I too bought 2 of 16mm X 1.5mm pitch, 140mm long part threaded bolts (strictly speaking, they are not bolts but set screws!) for less than a fiver. I will grind down the heads and round off, maybe put a screwdriver slot in them, so these should do the job.
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What a mugI is! They are actually BOLTS and not SETSCREWS.Nitpicking. I shoulda known better! But they will do the job well once the heads are off and the ends rounded, smoothed and slotted.
 
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