wheel spacers, grease cap, few questions

well...the rockstars I got off craigs list, the front two wheels, the grease cap sticks out to far for the hubs to fit over correctly, so the guys at discount took my grease caps off, and told me to cut them down to where they would fit.

Have been planning to do this, been slightly busy lately though, and want to do it about the same time I do my level.

However....tonight, my dad was looking at my truck (knows the caps dont fit currently), and said why dont you just put some wheel spacers on so the hub caps will fit over the grease cap?

So he got me thinking. What do yall think? cut down the grease cap, or get spacers?

How do the spacers mount or get used? never looked into it much and never gave them much thought.

Have a brand to recommend? I see them all over the price range from like 5-150 dollars, so just wanna know what is good and whats crap.

Right now I have slicks, and my tires are pretty much flush with the fenders, so spacers they might stick out a little bit, and look funny with slicks, but thats not really a concern for me as they will be getting swapped out for some meatier tires anyhow.

Spacers, the only thing Ive heard is to get hubcentric ones. Other than that I know nothing about them lol

okay, ill look into it lol I think about 1/2"-1" would do it.

do at least 1", you wont even notice a difference with 1/2"

oh okay, I think Ill try to find some that are about 30mm, I think that comes out to like 1.2"

can you just hammer the caps down some?

I really dont trust spacers, but I have seen tons of them on jeeps and vws.
def get hubcentric.

the only brand I have seen recommended overwhelmingly on a certain jeep forum is spidertrax. they are about $100 for a pair

i would cut down the grease caps

Cut down = free

hub centric adapters/ spacers = $200

rambob said:

can you just hammer the caps down some?

I really dont trust spacers, but I have seen tons of them on jeeps and vws.
def get hubcentric.

the only brand I have seen recommended overwhelmingly on a certain jeep forum is spidertrax. they are about $100 for a pair

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I think I prob can just hammer them down instead of cutting em, think Ill do that

quietpeen said:

i would cut down the grease caps

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ramhunter9 said:

Cut down = free

hub centric adapters/ spacers = $200

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yeah...I liked the idea of widening my stance..but free sounds good for right now since im not working anymore..might just take the cheap way out this go around

If you need an inch to clear... dont do it
You will just have to trim the wheel studs instead of the grease cap if you use spacers
Not to mention the headache (coming from someone who is currently running spacers lol)

okay lol thanks guys for all the comments, think Im just gonna hammer em down

I hope you haven't whacked the pizz out of 'em yet. You shouldn't have to.

What I believe you need is a set of earlty chevy hub covers. You can even buy them chrome. They are not as tall and are rounded rather than square edged so they should allow your rims to slide on.