Any thoughts on wheel adapters? (1 Viewer)

[Fisher23]

I see several people running 1.25" wheel spacers ..

Any thoughts on running 1.25" wheel adapters so I can run a different bolt pattern (5x5) for wheels?

It opens up the available wheels.

 

[bloc]

5-lug adapters shouldn’t have any issues worse than spacers, unlike the ones that change the number of lugs and require 2 pieces and a bunch more hardware. Just be sure those wheels can handle the load of the stock wheels. Toyota’s 5-lug pattern is larger than most partly to make it strong.

 

[CharlieS]

I've seen people do it on small campers to match the bolt pattern from one offered by timbren on one end to the toyota pattern on the other. That lets them run wheels on their camper that are the same as the vehicle.

For whatever reason, Timbren doesn't offer 5x150 bolt pattern hubs in the US, but they do in Australia.

 

[CharlieS]

I think Bora makes their spacers to order - I wonder if they'd make you a set that works in your application?

 

[aboisvert]

I see several people running 1.25" wheel spacers ..

Any thoughts on running 1.25" wheel adapters so I can run a different bolt pattern (5x5) for wheels?

It opens up the available wheels.

Did you do this? Did you find wheels that fit with good offset? What did you end up with?

 

[Fisher23]

Did you do this? Did you find wheels that fit with good offset? What did you end up with?

Have have this setup on several of my trailers, but not on the LC200 yet.

 

[Bleu62]

Just on the 200 page perusing. Not sure if it's just for looks, or to save money on the wheel options but running spacers on any vehicle changes the geometry of the bearing load and wears the bearing prematurely. There are some offset wheels that can mitigate this but at that point I'm not sure if it's worth it for wheel options, getting into the form over function side of the argument. Check out some spacer failures on Google or YT. My .02.