aboonski

I recently acquired a set of five 12-bolt H1 rims. Two of them had six-point nuts (12 ea) and the other three rims had some kind of five-sided nuts that I have never seen before. I wanted to pull the rims apart today because they are full of water from Tropical Storm Fay; unfortunately, I did not have a five-point impact socket to do so. Also found that one of the huge O-Rings that seals the two pieces together had been pinched so I need to replace that. Can anyone tell me where to obtain one of those five-point impact sockets and also need a source for the O-Ring too.

While I am on here I wanted to mention that one rim had pretty rusty lugs so I used a 1/2" x 20 dye to clean the threads before removing the nuts. I saw where some guy had broken lugs on his 12 bolt rims and needed replacements. I wanted to avoid that so cleaning the threads really did the trick for me. I am hoping I did not screw anything up by doing this! The lugs are made of some very hard steel!