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Rim repair?

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mteschGTP

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Do any of you happen to know of a place that can repair a crack in an aluminum alloy wheel? One of my beloved eagle 077 rims has suffered a crack from a pothole about an inch long. I live in the Milwaukee suburban area. Id be willing to ship it if the place does a good job for a decent price.

Thanks
 


Thanks for the responses guys. Unfortunately those suggestions were the first things I tried. Seems most places wont touch a cracked rim around here. Im slowly broadening my search to farther away places now... didnt think this was going to be so tough!
 
wheel-tech rim repair center: highland park, IL

alloy wheel repair: milwaukee area

that's kinda all i got from quick looking around...
 


Thanks I'll look into the wheel-tech one tomorrow. The milwaukee alloy rim repair doesnt do cracks apparently... so far all I have is Rimspec in texas that will do it for "around 200 or so, not including shipping." Expensive option, but an option nonetheless.
 
I know a place in the milwaukee south side area. They repaired 2 cracked wheels on a truck I sold and customer never had a problem. Its on 9th and national ave, not sure if youre familiar with the area?
 
Back 5 years ago I had this 077 repaired for about $100 locally at a place called wheel connection IIRC


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Then my wife's old Envoy came with 20"s and one had a slow leak which I traced to a crack, no bend at all mind you. So I trace the end of the crack, drill a 1/8" hole all the way through. That's an old trick to keep cracks from spreading I've seen used on anything from music cymbals to structural steel. Then ground down in the crack a little bit and then my dad is a welder by trade so I told him to put a big thick hot weld over it front and back and I took it home and ground it back to shape and finished with some cutting compound on a polishing wheel so it was nice and smooth to help seal. Sounds intensive kinda, but in reality if you don't factor in drive time to have tire dismounted, them to your fathers shop the next town over, then home to grind/finish, then back to get tire remounted/balanced, it took well under an hour of actual hands on work.
 
Rnungaray08 said:
I know a place in the milwaukee south side area. They repaired 2 cracked wheels on a truck I sold and customer never had a problem. Its on 9th and national ave, not sure if youre familiar with the area?
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No unfortunately I don't know the area at all. Know the name of the place by any chance?
 
Kejross said:
Back 5 years ago I had this 077 repaired for about $100 locally at a place called wheel connection IIRC


Then my wife's old Envoy came with 20"s and one had a slow leak which I traced to a crack, no bend at all mind you. So I trace the end of the crack, drill a 1/8" hole all the way through. That's an old trick to keep cracks from spreading I've seen used on anything from music cymbals to structural steel. Then ground down in the crack a little bit and then my dad is a welder by trade so I told him to put a big thick hot weld over it front and back and I took it home and ground it back to shape and finished with some cutting compound on a polishing wheel so it was nice and smooth to help seal. Sounds intensive kinda, but in reality if you don't factor in drive time to have tire dismounted, them to your fathers shop the next town over, then home to grind/finish, then back to get tire remounted/balanced, it took well under an hour of actual hands on work.
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Unfortunately I don't know any welders and the rim is most likely bent as well. Unlikely it cracked and didn't bend ya know? So places around here won't even unbend it if its cracked, I asked. Because I figured then i'd have someone weld it and then i'd dremel and smooth it out like you did.
 


mteschGTP said:
No unfortunately I don't know the area at all. Know the name of the place by any chance?
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Ill see if i can get the name. I used the place about 6 months ago. Where in the milwaukee area are you located. This place is about 3 mins from the harley davidson museum
 
Im actually in Pewaukee, about 30 min away id say. I go down to Milwaukee occasionally, but usually not on the south side.
 


mteschGTP said:
Thank you! Called and although the guy was tough to understand, said it could be done for under $100 next week sometime. Cool beans.
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Yeah i had the same experience. The guy is kind of an a**, but that place does good work. One of my wheels had a crack of almost half of the rim and another had a huge bend. They repaired both and never had a leak.
 
Yah I did. Super sketchy but he fixed the leak and tried to make it round again for 50 bucks. It was enough to get me through summer, but it never got back to perfectly round so ill have to find a replacement... :(
 
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