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The smooth hubcap project is much harder than I anticipated. I picked up some 16" pizza pans that fit my wheel perfectly. I thought I would fasten some tee nuts to the wheels, then fasten the pizza pans with truss head screws. (Truss heads are very low profile). I fastened the tee nuts with JB weld. But they are so far recessed, I have to use 1.5" screws, and it's extremely difficult to line up the screws with the nuts. Takes me about 15 minutes to install one hubcap, and I'm not going to deal with that every time I rotate the tires.
So plan B... I will fasten threaded rods to the tee nuts, and put hex nuts on the outside, just like lug nuts. This won't be as aerodynamic as the truss heads, but hopefully still an improvement. I'd recommend fastening hex bolts to the wheel with JB-weld, but since I already have the tee nuts permanently attached, I have to cut all-threads to length instead.
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