Mike.....before you give up completely on re-using the original driver centers, give it one more try but instead of using super glue ( which I personally have never had anny success at other than sticking my fingers together ) go to a good auto parts place and get a small bottle of Loc-Tite. This is the industrial world's answer to acc, and when the surfaces are properly prepared, you'll not be able to get the wheels off the axles. Loc-Tite comes in several formulations, the 262 would be fine. Clean the mating surfaces of the axle and the wheel center using small files to get all the old oils, greases and acc gone, you really need CLEAN surfaces for this to work! Finish up with lacquer thinner and q-tips until there is no discoloration on the cotton. One drop of Loc-Tite on the wheel's hole and another on the axle and press together. The beauty of your situation is that the Loc-Tite gives you some working time to get everything lined up and quartered correctly. That's been my bugaboo in the past doing as you are contemplating now. I would hazard to guess that originally, only the axle was splined, the wheel center was not, and slightly undersize to boot. As the wheel was pressed onto the axle, the splines on the axle made mating splines in the wheel, holding the wheel tight and setting up the 90 deg. quartering necessary for the engine to run smoothly. It'd be only by chance that you'd end up with another set of wheel centers where the orientation of their splines would match the orientation that was there originally and thus keep your drivers properly quartered. Give it a try and if it fails, well then shame on me and a hearty round of "I told you so's"
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