Good fix for wheels?

Have taken a strip of aluminum flashing material and made a bushing for the inside of the all plastic wheel. Roll it around the bolt to get it to size. Might need to ream out the bore a little bit, need lube every so often. A strip of brass might do it better if you have it.
 
Hello,

A better fix might be to use a sintered bronze bushing if the plastic wheel has enough meat to do so. I think better hardware store sell these bushings in various sizes.

Drill out the wheel and press in the bronze bushing.

Regards

Jeff
 
jp1961 said:
Hello,

A better fix might be to use a sintered bronze bushing if the plastic wheel has enough meat to do so. I think better hardware store sell these bushings in various sizes.

Drill out the wheel and press in the bronze bushing.

Regards

Jeff
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Here are some photos of this method I submitted in a post from 8/17. The wheel hole was drilled out with a 5/8 inch bit.
 

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Thanks everyone. I will try the sheet metal first and look for the bronze bushings at the hardware store Wednesday.. There is little worse than wobbly wheels.
Doug
 
I bored out the wheels on my old 22" MTD, & pressed in some sleeves I had laying around.

The sleeves are made outta bronze. Still working good, I do pop off the wheels at service time & grease the axle bolts. It ain't rocket science..
 
Folks,
My brother did a nice job of drilling out my four wheels to 5/8" (as mentioned above) and pressing in bronze bushings from True-Value. Nice and "true".

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Rocky
 
I'm assuming the felt-type spacers for these wheels are nothing available anymore?
Would a copper sleeve suffice vs bronze? I ask because I have various small pcs laying about that could be used as such.
I have one 19-in with these style wheels and they are in fact, wobbly and it bugs me. I had planned on looking into a cause and fix for the issue.
 
Copper will work fine, but likely will wear quicker being softer.. But if you use it post up how it is doing, I have a lot of copper as well..
 
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