Refinishing Work Meister S1 3P "progress thread"- need some help too!

[Sirhodjibob]

I didn't even have to use a hammer.

Since the rear barrel has a light coating on it, I didn't want it to accidentally come off when I applied the stripper on the lips, so I decided to split them. Probably not a bad idea to apply a fresh bead of silicone anyways.

[1badg35]

yeah you can tell from the way the face was designed. i was pretty damn sure that was a rear mount

[Sirhodjibob]

Well heidi ho

Called Work Wheels USA...all Meisters are rear mounted. I've been duped!

[Sirhodjibob]

just sand that area down if you're worried about it. doesn't have to be perfectly flat to seal, as it will be torqued with silicone over the top.

Thank you, will do.

+1 sealant torque and you will be fine. I would just clean the backside up with a little sand paper.

are you sure those are sandwich mounted wheels? typically when the face is sandwich mounted, the face has a bolt shelf that is inset on both sides. in your case the back of the face is flat which leads me to believe these are supposed to be rear mounted. Not entirely sure if that was their original intent, but to me those faces look to be rear mounted on purpose.

I would check the serial number on the wheels if you can locate one and give in a call. the way those faces were machined and the way the back of the face tapers in like that - imo does not look to make sense under a sandwich mount config

By all accounts I've heard, Meisters come sandwich mounted from the factory. However I'm not absolutely sure, so I will definitely look more into it now, thank you.

[1badg35]

+1 sealant torque and you will be fine. I would just clean the backside up with a little sand paper.

are you sure those are sandwich mounted wheels? typically when the face is sandwich mounted, the face has a bolt shelf that is inset on both sides. in your case the back of the face is flat which leads me to believe these are supposed to be rear mounted. Not entirely sure if that was their original intent, but to me those faces look to be rear mounted on purpose.

I would check the serial number on the wheels if you can locate one and give in a call. the way those faces were machined and the way the back of the face tapers in like that - imo does not look to make sense under a sandwich mount config

[motocaddy]

just sand that area down if you're worried about it. doesn't have to be perfectly flat to seal, as it will be torqued with silicone over the top.

[Sirhodjibob]

Hey guys, I've lurked here for a while but finally got around to making an account.

I picked up a second hand set of staggered Work Meister S1s in 3 piece form, 18x8 +56, 18x9.5 +62 (S2000 specs). They actually have a pretty fresh powdercoat on them that's in good shape, but I'm not a fan of the all white look or the black bolts.

This is the first set of 3 piece wheels I've owned, so I thought this would be a good DIY to take them apart and put together.

Plan is to polish the lips, leave the faces white, and replace the black bolts with gold ones. Hopefully given they were recently powdercoated, it won't take too much work to get the lips looking shiny.

Just after I picked, all with a few other new parts



Tires off the fronts, beginning to disassemble wheel #1. Tires were shot on the front, but rears have new rubber.


D'oh! Previous owner rear mounted the faces. You can imagine my horror when I start to undo the last bolt and the face dropped hanging on by a thread.






So this brings me to my question to those of you that have done this before. As I mentioned, the previous owner rear mounted the faces. Normally, Work Meisters are sandwich mounted and this is how I'd like to put them together. However, because they were rear mounted, there are now marks on the back of the faces from the nuts being tightened on them. Will this prevent them from sealing properly if I sandwich mount them? Or should I just thank my lucky spades I don't have to split the barrels and rear mount them again? See pictures for reference.