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Old 10-23-2013, 12:43 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Attach pizza pan with 1 bolt?

I have a prototype pizza pan attached to 1 of my wheels. To attach it, I used the plastic lug covers that came stock on Saturns with a bolt through the back and a nut holding the pan onto the wheel. The reason for the bolts facing this way was because of how hard it was to get them to line up with a captive nut (drywall anchor) inside of the cover. I have attached a crappy pic of what I have done so far.

But I have a new idea. What if I got factory wheel covers and cut out the centers so that only the area around and within the nut covers was attached to the wheels. Then I could attach a nut (rivnut maybe) to the back of the cover center and then bolt the pan to the wheel with just 1 bolt.

My question is whether this has been attempted before and what the results were? Is 1 bolt enough to attach a pan to the wheels?

I'm thinking that the less fasteners I have to deal with, the more inclined I will be to pop off the covers and check tire pressure and also make any other job requiring wheel removal less tedious dealing with such a thing.

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