Tony Brucato
New member
I was just swapping these weights from my JD 110 onto my newly aquired JD 425 and thought I would share the idea.
I have my rims with the valve stems on the inside, so I was able to use the largest diameter recess of the rim to seat and locate the weights. 25 pound barbell weights fit perfectly. Not Olympic weights, but the generic weights for use with one inch bar. I bought 200 pounds of them for 40 cents per pound.
I drilled two plates for each wheel with the four bolt pattern and then used long carriage bolts and nuts to make a two plate sandwich for bolting to the wheel. I also added a strap on the back with a 3/4" nut welded behind a through-hole. These two plate sandwiches are bolted to the rims as really heavy and ugly hub caps that will be left on all the time.
Here's where the 3/4" nuts come in; I Cut some short lengths of 3/4" black iron water pipe which just happens to fit perfectly in the center hole of the weights. This leaves a stub of pipe sticking out of the ugly hubcaps and makes it easy to just hang your extra weights on them. I use a 3/4" bolt to tighten down on everything, and away I go.
You'll need to have different length pipe studs and bolts depending on the number of plates. I keep the 50 pound hubcaps on all the time, and add two more plates per wheel for 200 total pounds when I really need it. Only takes a couple of minutes to change.
This has probably been done already, but it was a new idea to me.
I have my rims with the valve stems on the inside, so I was able to use the largest diameter recess of the rim to seat and locate the weights. 25 pound barbell weights fit perfectly. Not Olympic weights, but the generic weights for use with one inch bar. I bought 200 pounds of them for 40 cents per pound.
I drilled two plates for each wheel with the four bolt pattern and then used long carriage bolts and nuts to make a two plate sandwich for bolting to the wheel. I also added a strap on the back with a 3/4" nut welded behind a through-hole. These two plate sandwiches are bolted to the rims as really heavy and ugly hub caps that will be left on all the time.
Here's where the 3/4" nuts come in; I Cut some short lengths of 3/4" black iron water pipe which just happens to fit perfectly in the center hole of the weights. This leaves a stub of pipe sticking out of the ugly hubcaps and makes it easy to just hang your extra weights on them. I use a 3/4" bolt to tighten down on everything, and away I go.
You'll need to have different length pipe studs and bolts depending on the number of plates. I keep the 50 pound hubcaps on all the time, and add two more plates per wheel for 200 total pounds when I really need it. Only takes a couple of minutes to change.
This has probably been done already, but it was a new idea to me.
