Oh ya, my dad is going to be the guy to talk to him about it, I have only ever met the guy once, and am rarely in town at all.
If you can imagine, rather than the center touching all the way around the rim, it has these wavy sections in it where it touches, then doesn't, then it does, etc... Sooo, it has 4 spots where the center touches the rim, and they are about 3 inches long, maybe a little more. I could see that from factory each one had three nice big spot welds, and that was it.
He did the exact same thing, lined it up and then did three spot welds in each section where it touched. I have never welded before in my life, but shouldn't you be able to see a "burn spot" of the spot weld on the other side of where he made contact with the medal, or in this case, inside the rim?
I looked, and I could only see one on the inside..
I would post a picture, but dad has already left for the day, and that means my wheel did too! Bryce
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