| |
Click on image for the lowdown. 
====
| | |
0 members (),
348
guests, and
6
robots. | | Key: Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod | | | Forums66 Topics128,162 Posts1,057,042 Members48,463 | | Most Online14,466
Apr 26th, 2026 | | AD Chevy Trucks  Over 6,000 pictures Brad Allen has an awesome collection of Chevrolet factory pictures that he has set up from film strips. Check them out!
Lots of work on Brad's part ... pure enjoyment (and references) for you!
| | THANKS!
For helping keep this great
old truck web site
on the Internet for over 30 years! and not clogged down
with Ads!  Again, thanks!
| | | | Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 610 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 610 | Putting a list together of parts I need to finish my truck and was wondering what the specs need to be for the front wheels. Backspacing, minimal size, width and so on. I read on some part retailers site that the kit moves the wheels out about 1/2"???
Thanks! | | | | | Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 610 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 610 | what is the stock back spacing? | | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 | 3 1/2". If the kit moves the wheels out a 1/2", then you should be able to get away with a 4" backspace.
Bill Burmeister
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 5,152 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 5,152 | I bought a set of 15x7 Cragars used which fit fine on mine. I don't know the offset though I do know the wheels came off a '55 Chevy sedan delivery, and the front and rear required different offset to make them work on that car.
If I were spec'ing wheels one of the things I'd think about is getting the middle of the tire at the point where the center line through the kingpin hits the pavement. Doing so makes the steering effort less, and the wider the tire the more it matters.
1955 1st GMC Suburban | 1954 GMC 250 trailer puller project | 1954 GMC 250 Hydra-Matic | 1954 Chevy 3100 . 1947 Chevy COE | and more...
It's true. I really don't do anything but browse the Internet looking for trouble... | | | | | Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 506 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 506 | Drummin;
If you are installing a disk brake set up on the solid axel, MPBrakes make a kit no wheel spacers. Wheels: GM Corvette, Slotted 15x8 fit nice over the 11" rotors that come in the kit.
"Drugs are money, money is power, power is security." - Kent Heiner
Nedrow population 2212
Carbon footprint family of 2/11 tonnes of CO2/yr
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 15 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 15 | I was looking for this very thing so I could put my old Camaro wheels on the 63. Classic Performance Products has a kit that will convert them to a 5x5 bolt pattern.
After telling the tech what I was planning, he said that they sell "THE ONLY KIT IN THE WORLD" that would covert to a 4.75" pattern, but they require the drop spindles. Drop spindles require at least a 17" wheel.
1993 Typhoon "Thunder" - Daily Driver
1963 C10 "Whitney"
1967 Camaro "Beast" - Off the jig and finally on the ground again!
2008 Sky Redline - wife's ride
| | |
|
|
| |
