Axle/Hub supplier please

[RJ Howell]

Axle/hub supplier for a 6 x 135 hub bolt pattern. Ya, I hope to match to my F150 wheels...

Research so far is putting me all over the place and once on a site find out they don't have... Have a goto supplier you use?

[John61CT]

Fancy stuff, etrailer.com, great outfit.

Bog standard leaf setups, ask around locally.

[RJ Howell]

Fancy stuff, etrailer.com, great outfit.

Bog standard leaf setups, ask around locally.

Etrailer can't pull it off... so far anyway... Did they work for you and your axle needs?

[John61CT]

for Timbren axle-less, yes

[gudmund]

for years there was 'one' 6 lug set-up and that was what GM had used since the mid thirtys - Even Toyota & Datsun/Nissan up until just a few years ago had also used it for years, along with the trailer industry (which they seem to be still using today - but - today GM is not even using that same "original" 6-lug set-up except on the Silverado. I see Ford-Toyota and others 'all' using 6-lug wheels now also. but they each have their own lug spacing distance between studs. (Even the 'today' Chev Colorado has a different size spacing than the Silverado today - even the first gen of the Colorado (2004-12) used the same lug spacing as the Silverado, but they wouldn't fit on the Colorado being the Colorado uses a larger center hole in it's wheel than the Silverado = now the 'today' Colorado ('15 on) has a smaller stud diameter pattern than the old being it is now metric sized. Almost all of the company's today maybe be using a 6 lug wheel, but they all are of a different sized lug pattern between them................

[John61CT]

Hence spacer / adapters

not ideal, but allowing fewer spares to be carried, priceless. . .

[RJ Howell]

Hence spacer / adapters

not ideal, but allowing fewer spares to be carried, priceless. . .

Spacers are not an option. Far too many issues involved to even start mentioning. Please do not advise using to anyone. Might be okay on a trailer, yet never on a drive wheel.. MHO and sayin' just that.

[RJ Howell]

for years there was 'one' 6 lug set-up and that was what GM had used since the mid thirtys - Even Toyota & Datsun/Nissan up until just a few years ago had also used it for years, along with the trailer industry (which they seem to be still using today - but - today GM is not even using that same "original" 6-lug set-up except on the Silverado. I see Ford-Toyota and others 'all' using 6-lug wheels now also. but they each have their own lug spacing distance between studs. (Even the 'today' Chev Colorado has a different size spacing than the Silverado today - even the first gen of the Colorado (2004-12) used the same lug spacing as the Silverado, but they wouldn't fit on the Colorado being the Colorado uses a larger center hole in it's wheel than the Silverado = now the 'today' Colorado ('15 on) has a smaller stud diameter pattern than the old being it is now metric sized. Almost all of the company's today maybe be using a 6 lug wheel, but they all are of a different sized lug pattern between them................

Push comes to shove, I'll get an axle off a F150.. At least the hubs.. Really hope not to go the direction. Has to be someone out there..

I'll contact both Dexter & Lippert tomorrow and see what happens. Hopefully they can give me a retail source.

[martymcfly]

Don't sell wheel spacers short. Wheel spacers have been used on Race cars for years, specifically sprint cars. Use wheel spacers to tune to track conditions. Probably one of the more extreme applications. Granted it is a little different concept on a teardrop trailer.

[tony.latham]

for Timbren axle-less, yes

Do you a trailer you are running with those?

T

[John61CT]

Might be okay on a trailer, yet never on a drive wheel

Yes well, the topic at hand is trailers, and allowing use of the same wheels as used on the TV.

[GTS225]

One might want to figure out how much flange is needed to accommodate the 6-lug pattern, then look for a five-lug hub with a large enough flange that it could be re-drilled for the 6-lug pattern. Drill the brake drum to match, install new studs, and Bob's your uncle.
If there's interference between the two patterns, then weld all five up on the flange, have the new pattern CNC'd, and run with it.

If it's not made to your specs, make it yourself, or hire it done. It all depends on how badly you want it.

Roger