6 Lug 3 Nub 15 inch steel wheels - The 1947 - Present Chevrolet & GMC Truck Message Board Network

ekgguy · 01-03-2016, 05:40 PM

I have decided that it would be in my best interest to put disc brakes on the front of my 68 while I am in the process of rebuilding the front end.

My problem lies in that I currently have stock 15 inch steel wheels with the 3 nub configuration that I need to use so I can run my original dog dish hub caps.

I have done some searching and from what I have found, the stock steel wheels don't have the right taper to run discs. Correct????

Does anyone make a 15 inch, 6 lug, 3 nub steel wheel that will clear the calipers on disc brakes? I need to stay with 15's to match all around and I already have the tires, so upsizing isn't an option.

Thanks

**MusicMan70** · 01-03-2016, 05:52 PM

Old thread on what to look for and maybe as one member suggested, a 5/16 spacer on the original wheel.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=560599

67swb72klb · 01-03-2016, 05:54 PM

Up to 87 the 4x4 had 15 inch wheels

**leddzepp** · 01-03-2016, 06:13 PM

Look for 4 nub steel wheels, they clear disc brake calipers.

ekgguy · 01-03-2016, 06:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MusicMan70

Old thread on what to look for and maybe as one member suggested, a 5/16 spacer on the original wheel.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=560599

I read that the spacers MIGHT work...

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Originally Posted by 67swb72klb

Up to 87 the 4x4 had 15 inch wheels

If I remember correctly, the 87 wheels had 4 nubs. I need a 3 nub wheel.

**lolife99** · 01-03-2016, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by ekgguy

If I remember correctly, the 87 wheels had 4 nubs. I need a 3 nub wheel.

YOU need 4 nub wheels to clear disc brake calipers. YOUR hubcap will work on a 4-nub wheel. MANY on here have done this.
Look for 1971-87 steel wheels that came on 4x4 trucks, burbs and blazers.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=560599

**undertaker72** · 01-03-2016, 07:24 PM

You need 6 lug 4 nub. Disk brake wheels . they will take your stock hubcaps and no need for you to run spacers

ekgguy · 01-03-2016, 11:47 PM

Just to confirm... these hubcaps

will fit on a 4 nub rim?????

I was pretty sure that I read several times on here that they wouldn't.

**leddzepp** · 01-03-2016, 11:49 PM

They do.

ekgguy · 01-03-2016, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by leddzepp

They do.

See there... learn something new every day.

I will start looking for some.

Thanks

ekgguy · 01-03-2016, 11:55 PM

D.A.U.U.U.U.M.M.M.M.M
http://www.ebay.com/itm/67-72-73-87-...-/281899065390

Lattimer · 01-04-2016, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by ekgguy

D.A.U.U.U.U.M.M.M.M.M
http://www.ebay.com/itm/67-72-73-87-...-/281899065390

Thats because they are 15x8. People seem to think they are made of gold.

Malamute · 01-04-2016, 12:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Lattimer

Thats because they are 15x8. People seem to think they are made of gold.

Yup. I wanted some on my '69 but there's no way I'm paying the going rate for those things. The rally's will be just fine at that price.

Maybe go wheel vintiques? I'm fairly certain the smoothie will accept the dog dish caps.

**leddzepp** · 01-04-2016, 02:16 AM

The wheel Vintiques 5 lug will accept caps, I have heard the six lug do not, hence the high price for 15x8 OEM 6 lugs

67swb72klb · 01-04-2016, 07:56 AM

Wow that's a lot of $ wonder if he gets it?

**undertaker72** · 01-04-2016, 07:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ekgguy

D.A.U.U.U.U.M.M.M.M.M
http://www.ebay.com/itm/67-72-73-87-...-/281899065390

if you can get by with 15x6 4 nub , which are on most 4x4 they are cheaper , and easier to locate , I might even have a few around here

**special-K** · 01-04-2016, 09:28 AM

That's just greed on that Ebay listing. The actual going price is $100 ea, not bad for a cool set of wheels. You can even find them cheaper, but in the hands of an old GM Truck guy they are $400 a set all day long. Stock width are worth about $25 ea/$100 set. No smoothies accept factory hubcaps. They have a small inner nub on a smaller circle to accept car rallye wheel type center caps...and a few select reproduction car hubcaps made to fit. Wheel Vintiques started making 5-lug OEM style wheels but no 6-lug so far.

**Elliot949** · 01-04-2016, 09:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by undertaker72

if you can get by with 15x6 4 nub , which are on most 4x4 they are cheaper , and easier to locate , I might even have a few around here

Quote:

Originally Posted by special-K

That's just greed on that Ebay listing. The actual going price is $100 ea, not bad for a cool set of wheels. You can even find them cheaper, but in the hands of an old GM Truck guy they are $400 a set all day long. Stock width are worth about $25 ea/$100 set. No smoothies accept factory hubcaps. They have a small inner nub on a smaller circle to accept car rallye wheel type center caps...and a few select reproduction car hubcaps made to fit. Wheel Vintiques started making 5-lug OEM style wheels but no 6-lug so far.

I know this guy that has those wheels on Ebay... He lives about 8 miles from me,,, he is a real piece of work... He "deals" alot in these trucks but very few people around here will even deal with him...

ekgguy · 01-05-2016, 11:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by undertaker72

if you can get by with 15x6 4 nub , which are on most 4x4 they are cheaper , and easier to locate , I might even have a few around here

I definitely don't need the 8's. I only need 2, and 6's would work just fine. I am doing a 15x14 on the back and they already have the 6 lug 3 nub centers installed.

ekgguy · 01-26-2016, 01:58 AM

What about a 15 x 5.5 3 nub rim?

**special-K** · 01-26-2016, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elliot949

I know this guy that has those wheels on Ebay... He lives about 8 miles from me,,, he is a real piece of work... He "deals" alot in these trucks but very few people around here will even deal with him...

Sounds like my neighbor. He's a 47-72 Chevy Truck "expert" who never learns a thing and continues to eff up everything he touches. He wants too much for one thing and not enough for the other. He throws away parts that sell well. Worst thing he does is cuts vehicles up to make yard art he and only he enjoys. All he knows is double whatever he pays for a vehicle or he parts it out (even when he paid too much). He parts most out, but there are bigger dummies than him out there that find him.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ekgguy

I definitely don't need the 8's. I only need 2, and 6's would work just fine. I am doing a 15x14 on the back and they already have the 6 lug 3 nub centers installed.

3-nub wheels are made to fit drums. 4-nub wheels where made to fit calipers

**lolife99** · 01-26-2016, 11:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ekgguy

What about a 15 x 5.5 3 nub rim?

Won't clear disc brake calipers,...

drewbert41 · 01-26-2016, 11:59 AM

You just need to get two 4 nub rims.

6" wide ones are easy to find but 8" wide ones are tough.

ekgguy · 01-31-2016, 08:56 PM

Thanks all.

**68bowtie** · 01-31-2016, 10:15 PM

Wheel Vintiques series 62 come in 15x8 and they take the dog dish hub caps. summit ships free around 85-bucks a piece. i'm not 100% sure they clear disc brakes but i will find out soon.

EDIT: wierd they don't come in 6-lug. i see you guys already got that.

01-03-2016, 05:40 PM	#1
ekgguy Registered User Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Humble, Texas Posts: 414	6 Lug 3 Nub 15 inch steel wheels I have decided that it would be in my best interest to put disc brakes on the front of my 68 while I am in the process of rebuilding the front end. My problem lies in that I currently have stock 15 inch steel wheels with the 3 nub configuration that I need to use so I can run my original dog dish hub caps. I have done some searching and from what I have found, the stock steel wheels don't have the right taper to run discs. Correct???? Does anyone make a 15 inch, 6 lug, 3 nub steel wheel that will clear the calipers on disc brakes? I need to stay with 15's to match all around and I already have the tires, so upsizing isn't an option. Thanks __________________ Matt Build Thread http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=672655 "Father thank you for the gathering of friends, Father we give thanks for all the choices we've made because that's what makes us who we are, let us forever cherish the loved ones we've lost along the way and most of all *THANK YOU FOR FAST CARS!"*

01-03-2016, 05:52 PM	#2
MusicMan70 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Corona, CA Posts: 1,842	Re: 6 Lug 3 Nub 15 inch steel wheels Old thread on what to look for and maybe as one member suggested, a 5/16 spacer on the original wheel. http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=560599 __________________ MusicMan70 1961 GMC Suburban

01-03-2016, 05:54 PM	#3
67swb72klb Registered User Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: livingston co.mi Posts: 2,464	Re: 6 Lug 3 Nub 15 inch steel wheels Up to 87 the 4x4 had 15 inch wheels __________________ California 65 GTO---Texas 64 burb 283 ---Oklahoma 67 CST SWB BBW wood bed 327 2004r---New Mexico 72 k10 350 350 auto---Georga 72 short step project

01-03-2016, 06:13 PM	#4
leddzepp Moderator Join Date: May 2007 Location: Southern Cal Posts: 20,022	Re: 6 Lug 3 Nub 15 inch steel wheels Look for 4 nub steel wheels, they clear disc brake calipers. __________________ 1972 C/10 Cheyenne Super SWB. Restored, loaded, slammed. 1968 C/10 50th Anniversary LWB. Unrestored, stock, daily driver/work truck. RIP ElJay RIP 67ChevyRedneck RIP Grumpy Old Man RIP FleetsidePaul

01-03-2016, 07:24 PM	#7
undertaker72 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: nephi , utah Posts: 2,308	Re: 6 Lug 3 Nub 15 inch steel wheels You need 6 lug 4 nub. Disk brake wheels . they will take your stock hubcaps and no need for you to run spacers

01-03-2016, 11:47 PM	#8
ekgguy Registered User Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Humble, Texas Posts: 414	Re: 6 Lug 3 Nub 15 inch steel wheels Just to confirm... these hubcaps will fit on a 4 nub rim????? I was pretty sure that I read several times on here that they wouldn't. __________________ Matt Build Thread http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=672655 "Father thank you for the gathering of friends, Father we give thanks for all the choices we've made because that's what makes us who we are, let us forever cherish the loved ones we've lost along the way and most of all *THANK YOU FOR FAST CARS!"*

01-03-2016, 11:49 PM	#9
leddzepp Moderator Join Date: May 2007 Location: Southern Cal Posts: 20,022	Re: 6 Lug 3 Nub 15 inch steel wheels They do. __________________ 1972 C/10 Cheyenne Super SWB. Restored, loaded, slammed. 1968 C/10 50th Anniversary LWB. Unrestored, stock, daily driver/work truck. RIP ElJay RIP 67ChevyRedneck RIP Grumpy Old Man RIP FleetsidePaul

01-03-2016, 11:55 PM	#11
ekgguy Registered User Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Humble, Texas Posts: 414	Re: 6 Lug 3 Nub 15 inch steel wheels D.A.U.U.U.U.M.M.M.M.M http://www.ebay.com/itm/67-72-73-87-...-/281899065390 __________________ Matt Build Thread http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=672655 "Father thank you for the gathering of friends, Father we give thanks for all the choices we've made because that's what makes us who we are, let us forever cherish the loved ones we've lost along the way and most of all *THANK YOU FOR FAST CARS!"*

01-04-2016, 02:16 AM	#14
leddzepp Moderator Join Date: May 2007 Location: Southern Cal Posts: 20,022	Re: 6 Lug 3 Nub 15 inch steel wheels The wheel Vintiques 5 lug will accept caps, I have heard the six lug do not, hence the high price for 15x8 OEM 6 lugs __________________ 1972 C/10 Cheyenne Super SWB. Restored, loaded, slammed. 1968 C/10 50th Anniversary LWB. Unrestored, stock, daily driver/work truck. RIP ElJay RIP 67ChevyRedneck RIP Grumpy Old Man RIP FleetsidePaul

01-04-2016, 07:56 AM	#15
67swb72klb Registered User Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: livingston co.mi Posts: 2,464	Re: 6 Lug 3 Nub 15 inch steel wheels Wow that's a lot of $ wonder if he gets it? __________________ California 65 GTO---Texas 64 burb 283 ---Oklahoma 67 CST SWB BBW wood bed 327 2004r---New Mexico 72 k10 350 350 auto---Georga 72 short step project

01-04-2016, 09:28 AM	#17
special-K Special Order Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mt Airy, MD Posts: 85,852	Re: 6 Lug 3 Nub 15 inch steel wheels That's just greed on that Ebay listing. The actual going price is $100 ea, not bad for a cool set of wheels. You can even find them cheaper, but in the hands of an old GM Truck guy they are $400 a set all day long. Stock width are worth about $25 ea/$100 set. No smoothies accept factory hubcaps. They have a small inner nub on a smaller circle to accept car rallye wheel type center caps...and a few select reproduction car hubcaps made to fit. Wheel Vintiques started making 5-lug OEM style wheels but no 6-lug so far. __________________ "BUILDING A BETTER WAY TO SERVE THE USA"......67/72......"The New Breed" GMC '67 C1500 Wideside Super Custom SWB: 327/M22/3.42 posi.........."The '67" (project) GMC '72 K2500 Wideside Sierra Custom Camper: 350/TH350/4.10 Power-Lok..."The '72" (rolling) Tim "Don't call me a redneck. I'm a rough cut country gentleman" R.I.P. ~ East Side Low Life ~ El Jay ~ 72BLUZ ~ Fasteddie69 ~ Ron586 ~ 67ChevyRedneck ~ Grumpy Old Man ~

01-26-2016, 01:58 AM	#20
ekgguy Registered User Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Humble, Texas Posts: 414	Re: 6 Lug 3 Nub 15 inch steel wheels What about a 15 x 5.5 3 nub rim? __________________ Matt Build Thread http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=672655 "Father thank you for the gathering of friends, Father we give thanks for all the choices we've made because that's what makes us who we are, let us forever cherish the loved ones we've lost along the way and most of all *THANK YOU FOR FAST CARS!"*

01-26-2016, 11:59 AM	#23
drewbert41 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Champaign, IL Posts: 491	Re: 6 Lug 3 Nub 15 inch steel wheels You just need to get two 4 nub rims. 6" wide ones are easy to find but 8" wide ones are tough.

01-31-2016, 08:56 PM	#24
ekgguy Registered User Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Humble, Texas Posts: 414	Re: 6 Lug 3 Nub 15 inch steel wheels Thanks all. __________________ Matt Build Thread http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=672655 "Father thank you for the gathering of friends, Father we give thanks for all the choices we've made because that's what makes us who we are, let us forever cherish the loved ones we've lost along the way and most of all *THANK YOU FOR FAST CARS!"*

01-31-2016, 10:15 PM	#25
68bowtie Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Turlock, CA Posts: 8,742	Re: 6 Lug 3 Nub 15 inch steel wheels Wheel Vintiques series 62 come in 15x8 and they take the dog dish hub caps. summit ships free around 85-bucks a piece. i'm not 100% sure they clear disc brakes but i will find out soon. EDIT: wierd they don't come in 6-lug. i see you guys already got that. __________________ Please help my sister in law with her battle with cancer https://gofund.me/902f6fce Project "C10 Fever" (68 factory black 396 swb) Project "Little Sister" (70 c10 blue original paint refresh) Project "Blue Bomb" (70 c30 blue original paint refresh) SOLD Project "Vitamin C" (71 c10 orange original paint refresh) SOLD Last edited by 68bowtie; 01-31-2016 at 10:34 PM.



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