Balls. Just a little bit of rubbage on the passengers side front wing. Bubbled the paint nicely and wore a section of the tyres shoulder off. Beam needs to be adjusted a bit more though i struggled to get it any higher than this: which leaves just 1" clearance between the stupidly offset (20ET) wheels and the arch lip.
Mine doesn't have the horn grill and has a bumper slot. I've rolled the arch lip a bit with a section of scaffy pole and it clears a little better, plus i'm going to try and raise it up an inch or so back to where i originally wanted it. This is the difference between the original drivers side and repro passengers side one. Seems the arch opening on the repro one is around 15-20mm further back than on the original one. I measured the wheelbase and its the same both sides so its not that. Theres barely a fingers width gap between the tyre and arch at the front on the repro and 2 fingers width on the original one.
I have the same problem on my driver's side; tyre rubbing. I picked up a pair of standard spec rust free wings NOS repops from the US last year and plan to get these modded to 67 spec as well as checked and rolled, if needed. I am pretty certain mine is down to a combination of a repop wing and the non original ET of the alloys fitted. If that wing @the 3 crispies found on FB is indeed genuine it's worth picking up, sadly too far for me to travel and besides, I can't tell from the photo if it's genuine, or not. As you said @Zebedee, it's the wrong wing for your model year anyway...
Got a few minutes to myself this afternoon so got the bug jacked up and on stands and the Puma beam adjuster's locking nuts undone ready for the suspension to be raised a little. Theres nearly a 2cm difference in wing to tyre gap between a genuine and repro wing.
Been raining up here in Cumbria today so no work done outside on my caravelle but i did manage to raise the bugs suspension by 3 or 4 teeth on the puma beams adjusters. Wing to tyre clearance has gone from 28mm to 56mm. I also got the lip of the arch sanded, rust cured, etch primed and filled.
First time in 5 months i've wanted to take her out for a wee drive and the starter is now playing up.
With the front end back to a sensible height theres no more tyre to arch rubbing. Took her for a bit of a run out to let her stretch her legs.
Booked her in to the Classic cars in the park show at Hutton in the Forest on father's day. Finally found the 4th Lego valve cap i'd misplaced months ago. Still need a set of centre caps but all the ones i can find are for a 63.5mm hole and these wheels are 67.5mm.
Gave the old girl a nice coat of carnuba wax in preperation for Classic cars in the park next sunday. I know i've just jinxed the weather so prepare for rain or 6" of snow.
