Questions about Wheel spacers for a truck
A friend asked me about making spacers to make the front wheels on his
4wd pickup truck sit farther out. He is running non-standard, steel wheels on the truck. The wheels are 8 lug, on a 6 1/4" bolt circle. The lug nuts look like the standard lug nuts with the conical face toward the wheel. Before diving into a project like this, a few questions came up: How do steel wheels locate to the hub? Do they locate on the lug bolt/nuts? Do they locate on the hub in the center of the bolt circle? Would 6061 T6 be suitable for making a wheel spacer? The spacer will be about 0.6 thick, and the lugs are long enough to pull up with plenty of space. Thanks in advance, BobH |
Questions about Wheel spacers for a truck
On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 18:32:31 -0700, BobH
wrote: A friend asked me about making spacers to make the front wheels on his 4wd pickup truck sit farther out. He is running non-standard, steel wheels on the truck. The wheels are 8 lug, on a 6 1/4" bolt circle. The lug nuts look like the standard lug nuts with the conical face toward the wheel. Before diving into a project like this, a few questions came up: How do steel wheels locate to the hub? Do they locate on the lug bolt/nuts? Do they locate on the hub in the center of the bolt circle? Would 6061 T6 be suitable for making a wheel spacer? The spacer will be about 0.6 thick, and the lugs are long enough to pull up with plenty of space. Thanks in advance, BobH If it is a "sandwich" spacer with long studs, 6061T6 is plenty good enough. The wheels are stud-centric, but having an accurate hub center shure doesn't hurt - I'd make the spacer fit snugly on the exixting axle stub, with an accurately centered stub on the spacer, with the holes for the stud a snug fit over the studs - so the studs are supported by the spacer, and the wheels centered by both studs and wheel center. |
Questions about Wheel spacers for a truck
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Questions about Wheel spacers for a truck
On 09-Dec-15 9:32 AM, BobH wrote:
A friend asked me about making spacers to make the front wheels on his 4wd pickup truck sit farther out. He is running non-standard, steel wheels on the truck. The wheels are 8 lug, on a 6 1/4" bolt circle. The lug nuts look like the standard lug nuts with the conical face toward the wheel. Before diving into a project like this, a few questions came up: How do steel wheels locate to the hub? Do they locate on the lug bolt/nuts? Do they locate on the hub in the center of the bolt circle? Would 6061 T6 be suitable for making a wheel spacer? The spacer will be about 0.6 thick, and the lugs are long enough to pull up with plenty of space. Thanks in advance, BobH Have you looked at buying them off the shelf? They used to be much cheaper than you could make them for. |
Questions about Wheel spacers for a truck
On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 13:18:56 +0800
800L wrote: snip Have you looked at buying them off the shelf? They used to be much cheaper than you could make them for. Depending on how far you want to space them out: http://www.amazon.com/s/185-8990793-... heel%20spacer $6.50 for 1/4 inch to $130 for a pair of 3 inch. At least the original poster can see some pictures of how it is being done commercially... -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email |
Questions about Wheel spacers for a truck
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Questions about Wheel spacers for a truck
On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 08:18:22 -0800
Larry Jaques wrote: snip I've always been wary of those centerless, elongated-hole adapter plates for aluminum mags. I had L50 x 15 Crager SS Mags on the back of my old El Camino. They used a universal aluminum adapter plate, 5 long lug nuts. Anyway I got into a fender bender where I guy ran into the side of me pulling out of a parking lot. Most of the damage was on the front-left corner but some how it caught the Mag and bent the rear axle. New rear axle, re-mounted the Mag (with a slight ding in it) with all the old hardware. It all ran smooth again... -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email |
Questions about Wheel spacers for a truck
On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 13:18:56 +0800, 800L wrote:
On 09-Dec-15 9:32 AM, BobH wrote: A friend asked me about making spacers to make the front wheels on his 4wd pickup truck sit farther out. He is running non-standard, steel wheels on the truck. The wheels are 8 lug, on a 6 1/4" bolt circle. The lug nuts look like the standard lug nuts with the conical face toward the wheel. Before diving into a project like this, a few questions came up: How do steel wheels locate to the hub? Do they locate on the lug bolt/nuts? Do they locate on the hub in the center of the bolt circle? Would 6061 T6 be suitable for making a wheel spacer? The spacer will be about 0.6 thick, and the lugs are long enough to pull up with plenty of space. Thanks in advance, BobH Have you looked at buying them off the shelf? They used to be much cheaper than you could make them for. Cheap in the USA, but not so cheap by the time you get them up to Canada - and not cheap from Canadian suppliers in my experience. If you need more than half an inch, don't have long enough studs, or are changing bolt patterns- BUY. |
Questions about Wheel spacers for a truck
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