curtis73
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I was reading the wheel tech article here and researching on some other sites and came up with a question.
Most wheel reference sites list the center bore of all Ranger wheels from the 80s up to the latest as being 70.6mm (or 70.3 or 70.5 depending on the site), but the tech article here says that late-model wheels won't fit on the front of my 94 because the hub bore is too small for the 4x4 hubs.
Is my assumption correct that the hub bore on the inside where it meets the rotor is still the correct 70.6mm, but the hub bore steps down smaller toward the outside? So I would need to enlarge the outside of the hub bore, but the inside where it meets the hub is still going to be correct? (oh, and I doubt it makes a difference, but I ditched the busted auto locking hubs for manual hubs from an earlier truck)
Going from these 15x7 wheels on my 94 B4000:
To these 16x7 wheels from an 05 Ranger:
Most wheel reference sites list the center bore of all Ranger wheels from the 80s up to the latest as being 70.6mm (or 70.3 or 70.5 depending on the site), but the tech article here says that late-model wheels won't fit on the front of my 94 because the hub bore is too small for the 4x4 hubs.
Is my assumption correct that the hub bore on the inside where it meets the rotor is still the correct 70.6mm, but the hub bore steps down smaller toward the outside? So I would need to enlarge the outside of the hub bore, but the inside where it meets the hub is still going to be correct? (oh, and I doubt it makes a difference, but I ditched the busted auto locking hubs for manual hubs from an earlier truck)
Going from these 15x7 wheels on my 94 B4000:
To these 16x7 wheels from an 05 Ranger:
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