Another "Will these fit?": 18" Mustang wheels

72Dust'Ya said

Any Idea how much you had to bore the hub center?.... I measured(cheap harbor freight mic) 70.8 mm hub center on my new rotors an these wheels say 70.6mm hub center , didnt measure the mopar rotors that came with front end but curious now I think about it

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So searching around on here I saw a few mentions of the diameter of the '73-up front disc hubs in inches, converted to mm it was right around 71.5mm. I had the hub registers bored to 71.5mm and the fit is perfect, slightly snug slip-fit; gotta work the wheels around and push them onto the hubs a bit but they do slide on without much trouble which I know will give them some extra support.

I had a friend telling me he uses hub centering rings on all the wheels he puts on his vehicles or else he gets vibrations but he has a Mazda Miata, '96 Jeep Cherokee and '83 Mercedes 300D so those might work differently than classic Mopars. He's also pretty obsessive-compulsive so it might partly be in his head LOL. Still if possible it's nice to have the extra support of the wheels centering on the hubs.

I know for the rear wheels I just took a coarse sanding roll on my dremel to the centering 'lip' and gradually removed material a little at a time until they slid over the 'hubs' on the rear axle flanges. Didn't take much at all I barely removed any material to get them to fit. I couldn't do that on the fronts because the center hub hole wasn't deep enough and the outer edge of the front hubs bottomed with the wheel mount surface still 1/4"+ away from the hub mating surface.