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Originally Posted by az's1971C10
BugzC10,
what did you do to restore your rims and center caps ? I have a set that I want to do for my daughter's C10 and I was planning on having them powder coated.
cheers
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I sanded, paint stripper, wire wheeled, primed and painted the wheels, inside & out. I would have power coated, but there's not shops convienient. I tapped or re- tapped (cleaned the treads) all of the center cap bolt holes. Only 3 of the 5 center cap bolt holes are threaded, so tapped the other 2 for ease of installation. I scrapped off the original Chevy emblems and stripped of all the OEM paint on the center caps. Polished the chrome center caps. Replace the center cap emblem with some New OEM emblems I found on this site. I purchased some stainless steel wide shoulder button head allen screws to attach the center cap. Installed new ~1.75 Pollished SS beauty rims. Went with 1.75 because the fronts are only 6.5 wide. Considering going with some 2.5-3" on the rear. Finished off the look with crome Gorilla Locking lugs.
