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Where to buy/get a 5 - 4 lug adapter / 1.75" spacer?

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Old May 24, 2011 | 10:57 PM
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Default Where to buy/get a 5 - 4 lug adapter / 1.75" spacer?

OK I know exactly what your going to say... "NOOO" but hear me out.

I am keeping the stock WHEELS however need the spacer outside of the wheel to separate my spinners. Yes I have chrome spinners. Make fun of me all you want. I won them 10 years ago in a car show, and they are like $1000 spinners. They happen to fit the look and diameter of my stock truck wheels perfectly. I decided to buy a 2nd truck for offroading, so this is going to be a gawdy occaisonal DD.

I used to have spacers/adapters on my F150 years ago to run a set of aftermarket wheels on it. I can find 5 lug to alternative 5 lugs on ebay, but I can't find a 5 lug to 4 lug... which you'd never want to do for WHEELS, but should be fine for HUBCAPS. Any idea where I could buy these/have them made? Since this is just for fun I don't want to spend more than a few hundred bucks. The only alternative is I might try making them out of fiberglass?

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Old May 24, 2011 | 11:55 PM
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Don't use fiberglass, the side loading would break them, and your spinners would go for a ride they would not much care for.

All an adapter is, is a circle with the right inside/outside diameters, with holes in the right places. You should be able to have a machine shop make some up for you for not too much.....
 
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Old May 25, 2011 | 01:09 AM
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Yeah a machine shop or even call up one of the places on ebay and see if they could make you some custom ones with the lug pattern you need
 
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Old May 25, 2011 | 10:37 PM
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I'm not seeing how this would be possible. The two patterns won't overlap without sharing a bolt hole and even then you won't have room for lug nuts on some of the studs.
 
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Old May 25, 2011 | 10:39 PM
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NOOOOOOO,

Sorry, had to do it.
 
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Old May 25, 2011 | 10:50 PM
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gotta share pics please!
 
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