Does this make my car a bus?
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Re: Does this make my car a bus?
Did some research and found out that the correct hubodometer for the tyre size of my Laser (175/65R14) is 546 revolutions per km.
Guess what I discovered among my collection? A Chicago Rawhide hubodometer I got a few years ago on the cheap, is 546 revolutions per mile. If you substitute the units for kilometres, it should be correct, so I went about mounting it and seeing the results.
I can report that so far my car's trip odometer has read 127km and the device on the wheel is reading 131 miles (kilometres). Sometimes the car's speedometer goes haywire at higher speeds and such a thing happened on this trip, so the car's odometer may be out of whack. I shall keep observing.
Guess what I discovered among my collection? A Chicago Rawhide hubodometer I got a few years ago on the cheap, is 546 revolutions per mile. If you substitute the units for kilometres, it should be correct, so I went about mounting it and seeing the results.
I can report that so far my car's trip odometer has read 127km and the device on the wheel is reading 131 miles (kilometres). Sometimes the car's speedometer goes haywire at higher speeds and such a thing happened on this trip, so the car's odometer may be out of whack. I shall keep observing.
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Re: Does this make my car a bus?
Update. Car reading 245 km. Hubbo 252. Overstating about 3% over car odo, which already overstates real distance (I think).
Just thought of using my Garmin's GPS trip meter.
Edit: it is now October 1st and I have finally got around to testing against GPS odometer and hubbo has read 112km to GPS 110km.
Just thought of using my Garmin's GPS trip meter.
Edit: it is now October 1st and I have finally got around to testing against GPS odometer and hubbo has read 112km to GPS 110km.
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Re: Does this make my car a bus?
Put this MILES version onto the 92 Fairlane. It's manufacturing date is 1973 and it still works.
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Wacked this chunky ACCU-TRAK onto the Laser a few weeks back. Attracted attention from other motorists.
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Here is the idea taken further.
https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/truck ... ike.28860/
https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/truck ... ike.28860/
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Here are a couple of shots I took the other day, one on a truck trailer and the other on a coach.
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My latest acquisition on the right. NOS dated 3/81. Would look great on a Leyland Leopard or Atlantean.
Oldy (actually newer but used) on the left is ex Westbus Northmead where a kind mechanic gave me several old ones no longer required in the late 1990s. Probably come off a Volvo B10M.
I painted the edge black to mimic an Engler hubbo.
Oldy (actually newer but used) on the left is ex Westbus Northmead where a kind mechanic gave me several old ones no longer required in the late 1990s. Probably come off a Volvo B10M.
I painted the edge black to mimic an Engler hubbo.
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Ok, I know there has been no replies lately, but a helluva lot of views, so I have to assume there's interest in my hobby, so here's the latest. Here it it is since the TX3 alloys went on the Laser a couple of months ago.
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You know what, it's a really good hobby. Interesting too because not every day does one see a hubodometer fixed onto a car's wheel; shows anything is possible when you got the tools. And you can certainly see that interest in the amount of views, so keep 'em coming.Swift wrote:Ok, I know there has been no replies lately, but a helluva lot of views, so I have to assume there's interest in my hobby,
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Dear T80; If the decker's not a Volgren, I'm not interested.
Westbus Fairfield + Dandy Hub = perfection
Good old Collingwood forever.
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The results of my latest trip.
GPS 114km.
ODO114km
HUBBO 117km
Good news in the car's odometer is very accurate, but the hubodometer is reading too fast. No good.
GPS 114km.
ODO114km
HUBBO 117km
Good news in the car's odometer is very accurate, but the hubodometer is reading too fast. No good.
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Thanks. I can't help being completely besotted by the things. Heaven is driving beside one on a truck or bus, especially with the unit slightly off centre and the pendulum inside swinging wildly. It just does it for me.BanksfielderIdiot823 wrote:
You know what, it's a really good hobby. Interesting too because not every day does one see a hubodometer fixed onto a car's wheel; shows anything is possible when you got the tools. And you can certainly see that interest in the amount of views, so keep 'em coming.
Well, the car is now a car again...for now...
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I have a bit of a purpose doing this. I want to wind it up to 2000 km for a guy I'm giving it to. It's reading 1353km.
First pic with the wheel off just for fun, as I have seen buses with the wheel removed and the hubbo still on.
First pic with the wheel off just for fun, as I have seen buses with the wheel removed and the hubbo still on.
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After one round trip between the central coast and Sydney and a few local runarounds, I got it just shy of the target.
I then fitted this old ratty one in it's place.
I then fitted this old ratty one in it's place.
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Here's one I found fitted on a parked trailer.
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Here's another one. I decided to give it a wipe.
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Here's a few I have run into including one literally as I was crossing the road, fitted on a Randwick council Volvo garbage truck (third picture).
I had enough time to pull out the phone and take the shot, before the truck drove away.
Note the more modern electronic one in the second pic. The reading moves with the wheel but the LCD readout rights itself according to position.
I don't like them. I only like the traditional mechanical ones.
I had enough time to pull out the phone and take the shot, before the truck drove away.
Note the more modern electronic one in the second pic. The reading moves with the wheel but the LCD readout rights itself according to position.
I don't like them. I only like the traditional mechanical ones.
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[An old NOS hubbo I recently got in pristine condition made in 1982. I remember seeing one of these blue Veeder Root hubodometers for the first time on an Entrance Red Bus at Bateau Bay back around 1987.
Happy days.
Also as a bonus, a video still of a hubodometer I posed on STA Scania 3720 years ago with giant lumps of blu-tak.
Happy days.
Also as a bonus, a video still of a hubodometer I posed on STA Scania 3720 years ago with giant lumps of blu-tak.
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A Scania with hubs? That's as likely as any Volgren Mercedes-Benz O500LE having some character.
Honestly, there are Scania K230UBs (2008-2009) that are better than these 6 2003 vehicles that are privately owned by Transit Systems.
Honestly, there are Scania K230UBs (2008-2009) that are better than these 6 2003 vehicles that are privately owned by Transit Systems.
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I used to see them fitted to The Entrance Red Bus Scanias in the 80s and 90s. The bracket was so long they often got bent causing the hubodometer to move off center as it spun with the wheel. Great amusement for myself.TA3001 wrote:A Scania with hubs? That's as likely as any Volgren Mercedes-Benz O500LE having some character.
One of STA's two CNG Scania prototypes had a hubodometer attached and it suffered the same twisting problem. The Entrance Red Buses now turn their axles on a lathe and screw the hubodometer direct to the axles on their current Ivecos. They look awesome that way.
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Fitted this other one to the "bus" -4 seated 0 standing.
I want to keep the pure blue one in the box for a while.
I want to keep the pure blue one in the box for a while.
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I got this one that measures acres. It's going on the bus.
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This one makes my car a truck. I shall add a cord operated air horn soon.
This is a famous hubodometer. It's made by PPI of North Hollywood CA.
This is a famous hubodometer. It's made by PPI of North Hollywood CA.
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An assortment in the shed and one getting clearcoat to make the lens pop. Compare to unit in far right of first picture before getting it done.
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The Veeder Root dating from 1978 has a nice sophisticated hue to it. The other one's more in your face "look at me". VR's hubodometer division must have had a fashionista in it's ranks.
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A fascinating short film I found on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/UZ1RBcid41Q
https://youtu.be/UZ1RBcid41Q
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