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Originally Posted by onebluemcm
It may be possible to remove material from the mating surface of the wheel, yes. May is the critical word. If there is not enough material left, there is a very, very real risk of a catastrophic failure; i.e., wheel flange pulling off of the wheel, wheel rolls down road unatached to car, car meets telephone pole/rock/barrier/other vehicle, you die. You'd want to speak directly with an engineer of the wheels in question about this.
More importantly, going at any wheel flange with a grinder would be like trying to restore a fine piece of art with a belt sander, or something. Do not do this!! The wheel flange, that mates up to the hub/rotor has to be as near perfectly parallel with the rim as possible. When it's out of parallel, it's called runout, this is a bad thing. All wheels will have some runout but on the best wheels it's miniscule. Aside from a CNC shop with an engineer or highly experienced operator, there is basically no practical way to remove material from the flange in any precise way. I think it would be hard to find a CNC shop that would be willing to do this simply for liability reasons.
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Ok thank you for this info. I was not recommending one attempt this themselves, rather that I had heard it mentioned a few times it is possible. And it makes sense...hell we do business with an engineering company that machines 100lb shafts from billet for us which must be in perfect balance...given that it seems like machining a wheel hub down is entirely feasible...the liability however being a major concern.
