Anybody have experience with wheel adapters. I tow a very heavy 17,000 lbs 5th wheel and I'm wondering if the adapters and 19.5 inch tires would work well.

 

hello from Afghanistan.

Skip the adapters and go striaght to 19.5" rims made to suit your axle lug pattern.

Rickson Wheel Manufacturing

 

Yeah, I had Ricksons on my 01, just have a line on a good price for the others. Stay safe over there.

 

Quigley Motor Company uses adapters for the 2006 and older Ford vans that they convert to 4x4.

Quigley wants the rims to be interchangeable front & rear.

Quigley only uses factory new front axles destine for the pickups and those are an 8x170mm bolt pattern with brakes for 17" rims yet the older vans have an 8x6.5" bolt pattern with brakes for 16" rims.

Other than going with adapters, Quigley would have had to go through the time and expense of pulling the rear axles and either installing new axles with the 8x170mm bolt pattern or have the original axles redrilled for the 8x170mm pattern.

Use the browser Find for adapter.

4x4 Vans : Quigley Motor Company, Inc. > Offers and Pricing > Ford Model and 4x4 Pricing Guide

4x4 Vans & Cutaways

4x4 Vans : Quigley Motor Company, Inc. > Technical Center > Ford Products > Ford 4x4 Components

Use the PDF Search for adapter
http://www.quigley4x4.com/linkclick....id=114&mid=530

 

By the way, I was told that my 2006 van got the last of the front axles with the brakes for 16" rims.

Originally I was slated to get the 2007 axle with the brakes for 17" rims because though my van was 'new' it was a leftover and Ford by then was already into 2007 production.

I was told the 2006 axle came from a cancelled order, and that Quigley was saving me the added expense of the cost increase for the 2007 axle plus the expense of all new rims to bolt up to the 8x170mm bolt pattern.

I wonder in hindsight if Quigley was forced to 'find' a 2006 axle because my van had skirts over the back tires and with wheel adapters mounted maybe the tires would not have fit behind the skirts?

In comparison.

My van before Quigley, 16" rims with 30.5" tires.


My van as converted by Quigley.


My Van after the 19.5" rims with 35.4" tires.