Sunraysia Wheel Centres from $20
Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 17:24
High quality stainless steel wheel caps to suit the factory fitted Sunraysia wheels to replace your missing or damaged caps on your Moke. The wheel caps comes in polished and unpolished form and with correct size Leylad decal. Unlike the original chrome wheel caps these stainless Moke wheel caps will not blister or rust.
Wheel Cap Prices
$20 per Cap. Comes unpolished with Leyland decal which you can apply.$30 per Cap. Comes polished with Leyland Decal applied.
$8 Postage and Handling to anywhere within Australia for up to 5 caps in a single parcel.
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The caps come with your choice of two different decals styles, a two layered Leyland emblem which is silver on black or the single layer cut out style which is black and the silver areas are removed so that you see through to the surface underneath.
Unpolished or Polished
The cap looks best when polished and it will look very similar to the original Chrome cap but is harder wearing and will not chip/flake or crack causing rust tracks.To save money you can order the caps in unpolished form and with some metal polish like Autosol or Brasso you can bring the cap to a full polished look in about 10 minutes of polishing. You do not need a buffing machine, just some old cloth and elbow grease.
This photo shows the difference between the polished and un-polished stainlees wheel cap .
Fitting instructions to the Moke Sunraysia wheel.
Due to minor differences in the production of each cap and more importantly the many variations in thickness of new powder coat, old powder coat and those rims that are just painted, there are some basic instructions for how to get all caps to fit properly.First up the cap is designed to be a pressed fit into the wheel centre, it should not be loose or move about or fall out of the rim once in place. Each cap is fitted from the rear of the wheel, so the wheel must be off the Moke, in fact it is best if you can have all 4 or five wheels off the Moke when fitting the caps.
The cap should fit evenly in the centre hole but still sit proud of the rear face by about 3--5mm, depending on the thickness of the powder coat or paint. Using either a rubber/plastic mallet or a flat piece of wood, strike the cap evenly to press it that last few mm into place so that it sits flush with the rear mounting surface of the wheels.
If you have all the wheels off the Moke at the same time I recommend you try each cap in each rim until you have all 4 or 5 caps sitting approximately the same height in each rim as you select the best fit for each rim. Then follow the step above and knock them home.
As mentioned earlier, the caps nust not be loose or have movement in them or they can fall out during normal driving. If you do find a cap that is loose try switching it with another.
The New Moke Australia Rims.
The new Moke rims available from Moke Australia appear to have a slightly larger hole and do not allow these caps to be a press fit. Although I haven't tested them myself, someone did purchase them for the Choke Rims and has had to resort to some type of body/metal adhesive to get them to stay in place. http://www.mokeaustralia.comAlternative Decals
If you are looking for something a little more that the flat Leyland Decal then a member of The Moke Forum has produced some very nice alternatives and he has excess for sale. The cap picutred has been polished using a stainless steel polishing machine so please don't expect that level of result from a hand polish, but still it shows what is possible.
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