Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Maintenance & Servicing tool for 2 eared spinner

Only too pleased to help. I have the version for non dished wheels and it works perfectly, no damage to spinners.

Just use a hide hammer, practice makes perfect.
you also get the "feel" when it's correctly tight
my car came with one of those plywood spanners. It remains untouched in the boot.

I use a 2lb "dead blow" hammer.
Works a treat

The plywood "spanners" can also split quite easily.....I went through two when I had the 4/4.

I ended up using a spinner tool from

MGOC Spares

which worked well.

+1, just keep your thumbs out of the way!!

I used a hide hammer but did buy a spanner from the MG club. Used that initially with a hammer"tap" afterwards to make sure. This was for 2-eared spinners.

Jay, I also saw that tool in Ebay. No danger to scratch the spinner? Is it covered or just coated metal?

Coated metal. It's worth putting a scrap of leather over the spinner.

..which brings us back to the hide hammer.

Why did they invent 2-eared spinners in the first place? So you could knock them on and off with a hammer. So what on earth is wrong with using a good old Thor No 2?

- Heavy enough to do the job easily
- leather faced so you won't mess up the spinner
- cheap as chips (£25) even if you don't replace the leather section when it wears and buy a whole new hammer instead
- British made
- the right tool for the job.

All the other solutions in search of a problem seem to be directed at relieving gullible owners of their money.

+1 Tim.....