g0wvd Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Hi Jack, thank's for the welcome and Hi to all members. My name is Terry, born 25-05-39.in Winchcombe glos. Now living on the Isle of Wight. Did my apprentice as a sheet metal worker, then spent 3 years at the Ashchurch REME camp nr Tewsbury, working on repairing military vehicles. Have moved around a lot since then. I am a radio ham call sign g0wvd. As of late, I have been restoring a 1966 swb petrol land rover, hence the reason for looking at this site, when looking for tyres. It looks like being a interesting site. Best regards to all Terry/g0wvd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RattlesnakeBob Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Hello Terry ! Ashchurch !!! Mmmmh! A veritable Aladdins cave of military goodies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g0wvd Posted March 3, 2013 Author Share Posted March 3, 2013 Hi Bob,nice to meet you, Yes I know the forest of Dean spent some time camping down there. Ashchurch was mostly tanks,and heavy lorries but I remember looking at the austin champs that came in,very nice. Bob I have been trying to find out if the 6.00x16' tyres will fit on to the lwb rims 5.5'x16" or do they have to fit on the swb rims 5.00x16" . thought that you may know. Terry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Welcome in Sir! Your knowledge will be much called on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RattlesnakeBob Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 (edited) By the LWB rims I take it you mean the 'normal' LWB rim where the 'outside' flange is about 2" wide ?.. .Just asking because.... you just might have acquired a couple of 101 rims without realising you had? and they are 'designed' for a 9.00 section tyre and are a bit wider again ...also...with a different offset to a 'normal' LWB rim.. .... .....confused yet ? haha I am ! but anyways... ..Yes I would say you can put a 6.00 tyre on a LWB rim with no worries mate ..the tyre will sit fine.. ..the original SWB rim was 'designed' for a 6.00 section tyre and the LWB is supposed to have a 7.50 as I recall... but I have a mixture of tyres on various rims in my 'stock pile' and am currently running LWB rims on my SWB Series 2 with fairly small section radials and in the past I've ran 6.00s on the wider LWB 7.50 rims... they sit fine and just look a bit 'fatter' ... ......crikey ..I'm proper confused now . when you can confuse yourself you know you're onto a winner ! haha! hope that helps anyways ! PS: just went out and had a look at a few different rims in my pile and to be honest I have a right mixture of sizes on all manner of rims ......Someone may well correct me 'technically' but from my experience, I don't think you'd have any trouble with putting the 'smaller' tyre on the 'bigger' rim.. Edited March 3, 2013 by RattlesnakeBob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g0ozs Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Hi Terry & Welcome You will find quite a few of us who share an interest in vehicles and wireless here ! Iain 73 de G0OZS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 hi welcome to the forum , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shane.c Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Hello and welcome to HMVF, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Isle of Wight, lucky bloke, we have an annual holiday down there. There always seems to be some interesting vehicles down at the flying club near Bembridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcot1751 Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Welcome to the HMVF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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