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After selling a few hundred Spare Tire Covers for the 928s I have one customer who says his does not fit, because his central tabs are missing. Then he looked into it and found that no one knows of any kind of fix. Of course I have been able to devise a fix for this, and I will send the solution on to my Spare Tire Cover Customer. Does anyone else have any such issue?
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ReDesign by FEATHER
by Jerry Feather
Producer for 928 of:
-Hatch Latch Receiver Liner--All Versions
-Replacement Heavy Duty Spare Tire Cover
-Flush Center Console Conversion
-Cowl Cover, Cowl Seal, & Shell Stickers--All versions
(RHD included)
-Aluminum Gas Cap Ratcheting Pawl
I went thru about 5 or 6 design itterations before I finalized the design. My replacement tabs are going to be in two pieces that are riveted together. They will then have to be riveted on to the edge of the spare tire well in place of the originals. There will need to be two rivets in the outer surface working downward and then two in the inner vertical surface to stabilize them. I have the body of the tabs roughly milled out except for drilling some rivet holes, and then cutting then into individual pieces. Then I'll mill out the vertical doublers that will stabilize them in place. Here is a picture of the sandwich of the first group of four pair of tabs. I need to mark on them the two place to fold them and then cut these pieces in two for the 4 pair that I am devising.
Last edited by Jerry Feather; 05-09-2023 at 10:25 AM.
NOTE before you drill holes into the floor of the hatch make absolutely sure the drill will not hit the fuel tank,
from the location of the tabs it should be clear,
but I wont guarantee that fact.
BTDT have seen holes and screws gone right into an otherwise perfect tank .
NOTE before you drill holes into the floor of the hatch make absolutely sure the drill will not hit the fuel tank,
from the location of the tabs it should be clear,
but I wont guarantee that fact.
BTDT have seen holes and screws gone right into an otherwise perfect tank .
That is is an excellent point Stan, and one that I have been concerned about throughout this little project. My first thought was to simply warn about this risk and give some advise about just how careful one might be in drilling the holes, particularly having a feel for the drill as it is just getting ready to go through and then lightening up substantially on the drill pressure. Now I am thinking of devising a simply drill stop to slip over the drill bit so that only enough of the bit is exposed to just penetrate the sheet metal being drilled and then stopped. I think I can make such a devise in my lathe with a short piece of small aluminum bar stock. Then I'll supply that with a couple of the correct drill bits for the rivets I'll also be sending.
Then I am going to suggest that in addition he gets under the car and slips some kind of sheet metal up between the fuel tank and the inboard wall of the tire well where he is drilling and tape it in place as a guard against even the short tip of the bit wanting to bite into the tank.
Last edited by Jerry Feather; 06-02-2023 at 11:23 AM.
05-06-2023, 09:39 PM
Missing Spare Tire Cover Tabs
