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I put on new Mile Marker 449ss hubs on my Excursion last week. I hated the gap the I now had from the new hub to the cap. After a couple days of thinking about it, this is what I came up with. What do you all think? (IF a pic didn't show up, then I screwed up)

 

Looks good, now about some plati-dip in black

 

Looks great! Any before pics?

 

We give up, what did you do to it?

 

Details on what you did?

 

The factory hub caps have a very small lip on the inside. It looks like the lip was extended but I am curious to know how. It truly looks factory.

 

sorry for the late response. One person asked "what is different". When you take off the stock lockouts and replace them with the MM hubs, there is a 1" gap b/t the new hubs and the hub cap. It drove me nuts (and only after about 3 days). I have looked up to see if anyone came up with an idea of filling the gap, I found nothing. what I did...
-went to Home Depot and looked at several different types of tubing. What I found is 3"x2" plumbing tube fit perfect inside of the hub cap. I measured the inside of the cap to the actual hub and found it to be about 3/4".
- I put the PVC in a vice and cut the 3" side to 3/4" (cut a little on the heavy side)
-took my neighbors dremmel tool and trimmed the edge at about 45 degree's(just makes it fit better in the groove)
-on the new 45 degree lip put a moderate layer of JB Weld (insert jokes/laughter here)
-place the 45 degree edge into the hub cap.
--looking into the (backside or inside..whatever you call it)hub cap place a heavey amount to JB Weld around the outside of the newly installed ring and smooth it out against the edge.
-spay it with chrome spay paint from the inside of the cap(looks better when dried).
-install the cap back on the truck.

Disclaimer:
I don't know how you guys fell about JB Weld...but I have found it to work amazingly well on many other applications. The cap and the new ring are non weight bearing, and it's plastic to plastic. I think that it looks great, and I know longer have that annoying gap.

sorry I didn't take before and after pics, I was so excited to see if my project was going to work!!

As far as the person who posted the pic with the Warn hubs....Is that a different cap from another model of truck? You don't have a gap on yours like I did?

I hope this helps others looking to upgrade your hubs.

 

Nice solution to the cap gap Art! Looks good, much better than the typical open gap. The other pic with the more shallow recess is due to the rim being a steel wheel vs an aluminum, they are thinner so there is less of a gap to fill.

 

Thanks WE3ZS!! I appreciate the compliments!! The steel wheel vs the aluminum makes sense. When I saw that pic this morning of the steel wheel I was like the What the heck!!

anyhow, much appreciated.

Art