Junkyard wheels 5 x4.5 bolt pattern?

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Postby Gaston » Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:00 pm

if you have too much offset (tires too far from the trailer body) then front wheel drive wheels are a good way to tuck them in under the fenders.
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Postby Laredo » Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:49 pm

well, I guess that takes care of that ...
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Postby Micro469 » Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:16 pm

I don't unnerstan about the differance between front wheel drives and rear wheel. Why do front wheel drive have bigger offset? How much bigger?
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Postby Nitetimes » Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:55 pm

Most likely where that comes from is the way the front end is put together. You have CV joint that has to be mounted inboard of a splined axle shaft inside a bearing hub, all that needs to go on the outside of the control arms which pushes the hub face toward the outside of the car. All that to keep the CV in the proper relation to the spindle pivot point. Rather than re-engineer the a-arms and stuff under there they just change the offset on the wheels to get them back under the car.
Much cheaper fix. Sometimes the offset is nearly the depth of the wheel. If you recall the old Eldorados the center section of the wheel actually stuck out past the wheel itself.
They can definitely get your wheels tucked in if the axle is too wide.
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Postby flooded01 » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:25 am

8) heres a link to about any size 5 hole wheels http://wheeltool.com/info/5bolt.html Jay
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