Anyone using wheel adapters? Ive herd good and bad, what are your expiriences?

 

As long as you use hubcentric adapters that bolt on to your OEM studs and then you bolt the wheel to the new studs on the adapters you are good. This is on OEM wheels of course. Most aftermarket wheels already have a positive offset. Here is a link to an example......

http://www.ezaccessory.com/Wheel_Ada...135-6135hl.htm

 

Have you tried these on your truck? I've heard they cause wear on the bearings but I can't see it being different than aftermarket with pos offset

 

Does anyone have pictures?

 

I have not used them on my truck but have used them on 2 vehicles, one I still have and one was used for some pretty hard off-roading for years with zero issues. If you use them with OEM wheels they will be no worse on the bearings than buying aftermarket wheels which sometime have a more sever offset than wheel adapters.

 

I had a great experience with custom wheel adapters on my 2003 Lightning. I didn't like any of the aftermarket wheels available for the F150 bolt pattern, so I used adapters to run wheels for a Porsche Cayenne.



If you're going to go the custom route, make sure you take good measurements of BOTH the front and rear hubs, as clearances were slightly different when accommodating the dust/grease cap on my front axles. These are the kind of measurements you'll need to take: