Anyone Running Six lugs on their hotrod?

Anyone Running Six lugs on their hotrod? If so Any info. I came up on a nice set of 31 chevy wheels, Would like to run them but I got 40's ford juicers, Not sure how I can and try to stay period?

 

I got 6 lugs on my truck, but it ain't a hot rod.
What period are you shooting for? if you put hubcaps on who will ever know?

Sorry for all the questions just trying to prime the pump here.

 

well I wanted to run the ford juice brakes, Im not that familar with 6 lug chevy brakes, Is their a possible way to run a six lug hub on those, Or at least use the ford backing plates? Sorry If its a dumb question,Im really not too familiar with brake, hub, spindle swaps

 

Re drill the 6 lug bolt pattern in the ford stuff. Period correct is fine but doing what you can with what you can is in the spirit of the period, at least that's how I look at it. Right now I'm doing Buick drums with the buick hubs on ford spindles with 40's backers, but using late 70's chevy brake parts.

 

This might be the round-about way to get six lugs, but here goes...

I think you can bore out the kingpin boss on your Ford axle to accept a 49-54 Chevy passenger car spindle.

You can use 47-55 Chevy truck drums, etc on 49-54 passenger spindles (look at the articles on my site... link below).

There you go, six lugs on a Ford axle.

Double-check that bit about putting Chevy spindles on Ford axles though!

Never done it myself; your mileage may vary.



Ed

 

I think that seems like it my fly, gotta do a little more research. But another problem I have is that I was going to run a banjo rear too

 

Second best way, if you don't want to have the hubs/drums plugged and redrilled(best way) is to get the adapters. Stay away from the cast ones, they break easier than the machined billet ones.

 

cast wheel adapters would be just perfect for putting 6 lug wire wheels on a 5 bolt banjo rearend....

here's an interesting diversion: the black widow 57 chevy fuelie race cars had 6 lug wheels on them

 

I don't think you can run a 6-lug to 5-lug adapter. If you draw it out in CAD (which I just did), you'll see that there's no way to position the two bolt patterns so that one lug doesn't overlap.

Am I missing something? Are these things commercially available from better magicians than me?


Ed