I know a lot of you, like me, run Methods without the center caps. I also know many of you paint your hubs black to hide the rusty eyesore that lies beneath. After a hard winter, despite properly prepping and painting my wheel hubs twice last year, they began to rust and looked like hell.
Both times I previously painted the wheel hubs, it was a chore which involved removing the wheels, masking off, and waiting for the paint to dry before reinstalling the wheels.
I decided to get creative today and contemplated ways to neatly and thoroughly prime and paint my hubs without removing the wheels.
I looked around my garage and saw something in my trash. Something I have many of: empty Dunkin Donuts large coffee cups.
Lo and behold, the rim of the cup fits snugly inside the wheel bore and around the wheel hub. I don't mean it kinda fits, I mean it snugly slides inside the gap between the hub and hub bore and the outside diameter of the coffee cup is exactly the same size as the hub bore ID. Kinda gave me a warm fuzzy feeling as a matter of fact. Granted, I am a hell of a lot smarter than most of you, but this is just genius.
I cut the bottom off the cup about 3/4 of the way down, where I would be able to hold the spray nozzle far enough away to get a light mist.
After 5 minutes of patting myself on the back, I got to work and had all 4 hubs cleaned with a scouring pad, wiped off, primed, and painted in less than 10 minutes. I then admired my work for another 5 minutes over a cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee.
Both times I previously painted the wheel hubs, it was a chore which involved removing the wheels, masking off, and waiting for the paint to dry before reinstalling the wheels.
I decided to get creative today and contemplated ways to neatly and thoroughly prime and paint my hubs without removing the wheels.
I looked around my garage and saw something in my trash. Something I have many of: empty Dunkin Donuts large coffee cups.
Lo and behold, the rim of the cup fits snugly inside the wheel bore and around the wheel hub. I don't mean it kinda fits, I mean it snugly slides inside the gap between the hub and hub bore and the outside diameter of the coffee cup is exactly the same size as the hub bore ID. Kinda gave me a warm fuzzy feeling as a matter of fact. Granted, I am a hell of a lot smarter than most of you, but this is just genius.
I cut the bottom off the cup about 3/4 of the way down, where I would be able to hold the spray nozzle far enough away to get a light mist.
After 5 minutes of patting myself on the back, I got to work and had all 4 hubs cleaned with a scouring pad, wiped off, primed, and painted in less than 10 minutes. I then admired my work for another 5 minutes over a cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee.
