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I bought my 86 f150 4x4 302 with a aod tranny a few weeks ago . The tires were in horrible condition and i had to drive the truck about 70 miles home. On the way home i got a flat. My truck had to sit in a parking lot and ended up getting towed. I found some 16in rims with nice tires that have a 5x5.5 bolt pattern. Which is what i thought my truck had based on what i looked up. Well the rims are off by about a 16th of a in. The rims will fit onto the first 2 bolt holes but then the next 2 are off just a hair. Will i be ok just taking a reamer and taking just a bit off each hole? The rims are black steel cragers.
Well i plan on doing every hole. Using a reamer bit in a drill press. I only have to open them a fraction of an in. Using lug nuts with tapered ends should take care of the centering.
Sounds like you might have some sort of metric rim. I would not do it either. You want the taper on the lug nut to be touching all the way around the lug nut, not just the outside or inside edge. I bet they keep working loose on you or it breaks the studs eventually on the hub as it will tend to bend the stud over if the lug nut tries to fit down in the taper of the wheel.
well my girl decided to spoil me a while back and just buy me adapters. the rims are 5x135. newer ford pattern. the issue now is my speedo. how do i figure out how many teeth i need on my speedo gear now? its a 86 302 aod tranny. current tires are 235 85 16s. at 2000 rpm im doing 78 according to my gps. i dont care so much about the speed problem as much as the mileage flying by on the truck.
spin all lugnuts on
cut just the unthreaded portion of the stud off
make it nice and flat
adapter installed. its 1 in thick
make sure none of the studs come past the adapter or your wheel will not sit flat and will get damaged
Over here they would be classed as wheel spacers and we can't run them on-road, plus they throw out your scrub radius on the front end.
I have never heard of them being illegal over here. Probably anything that modifies the suspension is illegal if you look at the letter of the law, but they only crack down on the obvious absurd stuff.
Most aftermarket wheels throw scrub radius out the window. They are usually bought because they are wider, and the extra width is usually put on toward the outside to clear the suspension pieces. So that throws the scrub radius off.
Most newer vehicles throw ackerman out the window also, when they put the tie rod ends and steering linkage ahead of the spindles.
