Late 14 bolt 8x180 hub conversion

[Gunhand1]

So I picked up a cheap (free) 14 bolt and after looking it over I realized that it is some later version that has what looks like 8x180 bolt pattern hubs.

Has anyone ever successfully converted one of these back to a 8x6.5 hub, maybe from a gmt800 era 14bff?

Worst case I guess I can pull the hub off my 05 2500HD, but I'd like to save myself the work....

 

[wvracer821]

Can you go on like rock auto and cross reference the bearings and races? I think that's where I would start.

 

[Gunhand1]

Can you go on like rock auto and cross reference the bearings and races? I think that's where I would start.

Not a bad idea. I just checked and it looks like the bearings are different. I may go ahead and pull a hub and check for shits n giggles, but it probably wont work. Maybe I could redrill them but that would be a PITA

 

[wvracer821]

Re drilling them really isn't that big of a deal. you can always run a spacer to convert, that's how I'm getting 8x170mm on my 05 14 bolt

 

[Gunhand1]

Re drilling them really isn't that big of a deal. you can always run a spacer to convert, that's how I'm getting 8x170mm on my 05 14 bolt

I may give redrilling a go, spacers would be easy but this thing already measures out at 70" WMS and that's without the discs on it.

Is there any good wheeling around you in MoTown? I moved to the EPH and havent found much here yet.

 

[YotaAtieToo]

Measure the hub diameter before anything and see if you can even fit a normal 8x6.5 wheel on.

I figured they went to 8x180 to make room for bigger bearings and/or spindle. But that may be more for the Aam 11.5 and they just made the 14b the same pattern to keep things the same.

Of course 8x170 wouldn't have worked

 

[wvracer821]

I may give redrilling a go, spacers would be easy but this thing already measures out at 70" WMS and that's without the discs on it.

Is there any good wheeling around you in MoTown? I moved to the EPH and havent found much here yet.

there's a lot of "private" land we play on close to Morgantown. My local group spends a lot of time at Good Evening Ranch outside of Summersville WV and in Wellsville OH

 

[Gunhand1]

Measure the hub diameter before anything and see if you can even fit a normal 8x6.5 wheel on.

I figured they went to 8x180 to make room for bigger bearings and/or spindle. But that may be more for the Aam 11.5 and they just made the 14b the same pattern to keep things the same.

Of course 8x170 wouldn't have worked

I'll definitely have to check that diameter too. I'm with ya, I dont know why they couldn't have standardized on 8x170, it's not like they all didnt share 8x6.5 perfectly fine for 3 decades.

there's a lot of "private" land we play on close to Morgantown. My local group spends a lot of time at Good Evening Ranch outside of Summersville WV and in Wellsville OH

Ahhh ok. I used to live much closer to the Ranch, great place to wheel. I'm fairly close to Chaos and Big Dogs, I guess I should give them a try...........or just trailer to the ranch haha

 

[arse_sidewards]

I'll definitely have to check that diameter too. I'm with ya, I dont know why they couldn't have standardized on 8x170, it's not like they all didnt share 8x6.5 perfectly fine for 3 decades.

There's no reason to have anything of that 8x170-220 shit.

Just use a 5/6 lug pattern of an old MDT (if you want freedom units) or euro/jap MDT (if you want commie units).