General vehicle thread

[ray1970]

I vote for you to leave the wheel alone and have the front hub turned down instead. That would be awesome.

[00tec]

I vote for you to leave the wheel alone and have the front hub turned down instead. That would be awesome.

Man has a point

[Erni]

As long as your wheel is not hub centric cut away. It may be cheaper to find a wheel than to set up for routing it though. (Of course you end up with a tool so there is that).
On hub centric wheels even a small off center amount will drive you nuts. Still trying to sort out the kids summer wheels but it an in between size and having trouble with the right rings.

[Irving]

I might just keep my eyes open for another wheel at the junk yard. At $30 a pop, they aren't expensive, but they aren't abundant either.

[Erni]

My suburban is not done. I screwed up the front diff thrust washers. Now I need to find them local or overnight $5 worth of parts. Frack. I swear I watched several vids and I did not see anything about removing the clip from the inside.

If anyone has a differential shop that has 8.25? ifs GM diff parts in stock please PM me.

I got maybe 2 hrs left after I uncluster the diff. Oh well.

[BushMasterBoy]

I would not modify the hubs for safety reasons.

[Irving]

My suburban is not done. I screwed up the front diff thrust washers. Now I need to find them local or overnight $5 worth of parts. Frack. I swear I watched several vids and I did not see anything about removing the clip from the inside.

If anyone has a differential shop that has 8.25? ifs GM diff parts in stock please PM me.

I got maybe 2 hrs left after I uncluster the diff. Oh well.

Do you have a picture of what you did?

I would not modify the hubs for safety reasons.

Me either. Ray is just kidding around. But his suggestion isn't far off from, "Just do a solid axle swap with one-tons and switch to an 8-lug pattern," which may possibly be in the future, but not near enough for me to do that now. Heck, I've only taken it off road once since I built it to where it's at. It performed as expected by the way. I need those low gears asap though. It's so hard to drive slow with a manual that I just bashed it over rocks all day. Bent the driver side lower control arm.

[buffalobo]

After little more thought, the hole saw method IMO would be easiest and cheapest depending on availability of "correct/close enough" size saw. Do auto parts stores loan them? I will loan you one if I have size that will work.

Looking at thickness of lip you need remove, you need at least 1-1 1/4 hp router with 1" length of cut bit(your thickness looks approx 3/4", I would use my 3 hp production router and bad azz custom bit).

Even if not enough throat to jig up bare wheel in drill press I would carefully and patiently drill by hand. If you plan to use as spare and wheels index to studs you should be golden. I don't think balancing will be issue unless you wreck the wheel.

[buffalobo]

Or go see Donald at Spec Wheels. This would be right up their alley.

PM me if plan that route, they are personal friends of Mrs bo and I.

[Irving]

I guess since it fits on the back axle, and I have the other wheel riding on spare, it will work for now. I'll probably keep an eye on the junk yard for another Isuzu Axiom to come in and see if I can get another wheel. I think I'm going to have to table truck projects for a bit and work on my wife's rental house. Crappy timing, but priorities.