General Hub Centric Spacers

[GoBe]

The 6mm spacers are cast Ally 4 stud universal they're something silly like £3.50 a pair, the orginal 3mm spacers have been removed, or more accurately never existed on the cars I've had.

 

[iron chef]

I had a little think about this and i can understand that it would be expensive to machine an entire spacer.

Is there any reason why you couldnt buy a cheap set of spacers like these from ebay and machine an insert to fit inside it...

Somthing a little like this..

Almost an inteferance fit and a cuttout so it slips over the hub...it would only need to be a bar with ~70 OD and im sure most machine shops would have a chuck big enough to take that. opinions?


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[fingers99]

Ingenious!

I don't see why not.

 

[iron chef]

Cheers!

I think there is a flaw in the plan though, ive never seen a hubcentric spacer but i guess it would have to be at least 2 or 3mm wider than the orignal hub center. I dont know how far it sticks out but i guess 20mm?? meaning the spacer would have to be >20mm

if the spacers are too big does it not result in scrubbing the front and back of the arch?

 

[fingers99]

Yes. And other wierd handling stuff. The trick is to get the fitted ET as close to the original as humanly possible. Blue currently needs huge spacers up front because the et of the Alfa wheels it has is so big (bigger the et on the wheel, the more "inboard" the wheel is).

 

[MRodz]

Cheers!

I think there is a flaw in the plan though, ive never seen a hubcentric spacer but i guess it would have to be at least 2 or 3mm wider than the orignal hub center. I dont know how far it sticks out but i guess 20mm?? meaning the spacer would have to be >20mm

if the spacers are too big does it not result in scrubbing the front and back of the arch?

This should help as per SC hubs... although I have to say I thought it's a bit more. Will have to take some measuring device next time wheels come off.

 

[stefunko]

Thanks all, i managed to get a set of 5mm spacers from Richie.Guy and they have made an improvement. Although the wheels shakes at 62mph+ i think i need the wheels rebalanced.

 

[MRodz]

Thanks all, i managed to get a set of 5mm spacers from Richie.Guy and they have made an improvement. Although the wheels shakes at 62mph+ i think i need the wheels rebalanced.

Try taking them off and cleaning the hub properly with a wire brush. I had the same with mine - would start shaking the wheel at about 100km/h and over. Then came winter and winter wheels, then spring and back to the alloys. Bought a wire brush, cleaned some crap off and on went the same wheels - no balancing, nothing. Not a shake from that moment.