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[quote][i]Originally posted by X 60RSA[/i]
[quote][i]Originally posted by corsa_sport_jay[/i]
Ok so they should fit when i take caps off? [/quote]

For some people they will, others not! But will make a massive improvement. Once you've taken the rear caps off, trim the pin back, it will be bent over the end of the stub shaft, this is the bit that will cause you problems, trim this off and just let the other half of the pin bend in towards the car. You need to make sure the pin cant twist around though. If it can twist, the bit that was bent in......when reversed will bend outwards and still catch your centre caps.....which will give you some metal filings in your bearings, made this mistake myself.

Remove them all, use marker pen, about 5mm worth around the hole on the reverse of the centre caps. Put them all back on, drive the car for 5mins, come home.....take them off and see if any of the pen has been taken off. If it has, the stub shafts or the centre cap will need a bit grinding off. Just keep doing this until after driving no pen has been removed at all.

If you do grind a bit off the shafts, try and get them level, might be easier just just take some out the centre cap to be honest.

[Edited on 30-12-2006 by X 60RSA] [/quote]

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corsa_sport_jay	posted on 30th Dec 06 at 17:14
	thanks mate
X 60RSA	posted on 30th Dec 06 at 17:12
	quote: Originally posted by corsa_sport_jay Ok so they should fit when i take caps off? For some people they will, others not! But will make a massive improvement. Once you've taken the rear caps off, trim the pin back, it will be bent over the end of the stub shaft, this is the bit that will cause you problems, trim this off and just let the other half of the pin bend in towards the car. You need to make sure the pin cant twist around though. If it can twist, the bit that was bent in......when reversed will bend outwards and still catch your centre caps.....which will give you some metal filings in your bearings, made this mistake myself. Remove them all, use marker pen, about 5mm worth around the hole on the reverse of the centre caps. Put them all back on, drive the car for 5mins, come home.....take them off and see if any of the pen has been taken off. If it has, the stub shafts or the centre cap will need a bit grinding off. Just keep doing this until after driving no pen has been removed at all. If you do grind a bit off the shafts, try and get them level, might be easier just just take some out the centre cap to be honest. [Edited on 30-12-2006 by X 60RSA]
corsa_sport_jay	posted on 30th Dec 06 at 17:08
	Ok so they should fit when i take caps off?
X 60RSA	posted on 30th Dec 06 at 17:05
	Take them off mate, dont advise bashing them in at all. They just stop dirt getting in the bearing, but the speedline centre cap does a good job in keeping it clean in there anyway. Defineatly remove the caps, they might come off easy, if not, use some mole grips and go around with a screw driver an hammer, tapping and levering the grease cap out as you use the mole grips to pull, easier with 2 pairs of hands. Then try the marker pen thing and see if its still rubbing. Hammering the grease caps could damage the pin inside, if that breaks up, it will go into your bearings and feck them up!
corsa_sport_jay	posted on 30th Dec 06 at 17:01
	no i have bashed them in with a hammer! lol!!!!
X 60RSA	posted on 30th Dec 06 at 16:59
	If you've got grease caps on, take them off, or have you done already?
corsa_sport_jay	posted on 30th Dec 06 at 16:57
	wot u mean material? do u mean the grease cap?
X 60RSA	posted on 30th Dec 06 at 16:51
	Grind some material off the stub shafts, that might be your problem. Or it might be the pin to stop the nut comeing off the stub shaft if its on the rear. You'll see a hole in the thread, if you dont have a pin, nothing to much to worry about. If you do, just trim the part of the pin that overlaps the end of the shaft. I ground the thread back on the stub shafts and also ground a little out of the centre cap. Job done. 1 way to check what your problem is.....do the following. Coat the inside of the centre cap with a marker pen, black or blue and drive the car for a few hundred metres, remove the centre cap and check to see if any of the pen has rubbed off, if it has, you need to remove some material, from either of the above. [Edited on 30-12-2006 by X 60RSA]
corsa_sport_jay	posted on 30th Dec 06 at 16:38
	how do u mean? PIN? i cant see a pin?
marklawton	posted on 30th Dec 06 at 16:37
	on my mates car it was the pin on the end of the driveshaft that was stopping his from going on so he just bent the pin i think and then it went straight on
corsa_sport_jay	posted on 30th Dec 06 at 16:35
	yer! thanks
andys sxi	posted on 30th Dec 06 at 16:30
	they didnt pop off no just so they dont fall off when im drivin u got speedline aleisso's cus there is a little but on th alloy where the centre cap meets the alloys put it on there of the edge of the center cap [Edited on 30-12-2006 by andys sxi]
corsa_sport_jay	posted on 30th Dec 06 at 16:28
	did urs pop off and that?
corsa_sport_jay	posted on 30th Dec 06 at 16:28
	were do i put the silicone??? round edge of the centre cap?
andys sxi	posted on 30th Dec 06 at 16:20
	ive put sum silocone on mine but just have a screw driver or sumit u can take them off with if u need to get them off
corsa_sport_jay	posted on 30th Dec 06 at 16:19
	i have baught speedlines today for my corsa B 3 centre caps are on okish not perfect but theyer on! but 1 just keeps popping off? :boggle: ! Are these just hard to get the centre caps on or is there something i should do? Anyone else had this problem? thanks jay :thumbs: