Wheel bolt pattern adaptors

Actually if he uses wheels with the appropriate offset to compensate for the spacer thickness the bearing will have exactly the same lever arm as without. The 'torque' arm consists of a straight line between the force points - center of contact patch to wheel bearing - regardless of what the actual member is shaped like.

Wheel weight itself has very little - uh - bearing on bearing loading. It is the vehicle weight and cornering loads that generate the vast majority of the bearing loads (unless you jump things - then landing wins out on worst loading condition...)
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Correct, except that liftoff might be worse than landing...
 
whew, true that.

Grafton, thanks for the note on the hubcentric issue. I frankly didn't know what hubcentric was until you said something, and I went and read about it.

Neither the original hubs, nor the adaptors are hub centric. I guess that is not ideal, there is no "lip" that helps support the wheel beyond the lugs. But it is what it is.
 
Just wanted to ressurrect this one briefly to say I have the adapters, I have 9 lb Vok 4X100 wheels with a huge +43 offest and I have new 225/45/15 Hoosiers......and...fingers crossed....we bolted everything today...and it worked! Nice pieces these adapters and everything appears to be in good shape clearance wise.

Thanks for the helpful discussion on this, much appreciated guys.
 
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