I have 4 rally wheels, 2 have spacers and 2 do not. For my car I need the spacers. Where do you get them? I included a picture. The wheel on the left has the spacer, the one on the right does not. Thanks
As far as I know the wheels came from the factory with them welded in. Sometimes people cut them out so the rims fit on other cars. I would try an aftermarket rim store and see if those universal centering rings will work for you.
I dont believe thoes are spacers. there more of a locating or centering ring. Ive takin them out of wheels and never missed it.
The centering ring supports the wheel on the front drum hub or the rear axle flange. Without it you are only using the lug nut studs and nuts to support the car. I believe there was a bulletin about this around 1970 and I think it stated somthing about Estate Wagons being overloaded and breaking the wheel studs. I saw the same thing happen to a Freightliner truck. It kept breaking wheel studs till we got a hub that centered and supported the wheel. You can probably get away without it but if it was mine I would make sure I had it.
Find someone with junk wheels and knock them out and tack weld onto your wheels. I'm going to do this on one I recently purchased. I'll have to see how tricky it is to get the alignment perfect. The originals I'm sure were welded on a jig fixture. I can see the remnants of a weld on the wheel on the right which indicates the ring used to be there. People knock them out to fit the wheel onto cars they weren't designed for such as a 63 or 64 where the hub diameter was larger and the hole in the ring wasn't large enough to slide over. I do not know of any documented failures from running a wheel without this ring; however, the Buick engineers put it there for a reason in 1965. The chrome wheels Buick offered in 1964 not have the ring.
