are the box wheel covers screw on like the Aero and Whales?

[drhill]

Looking to switch to steel wheels but really only want to use screw on wheel covers like the aero and newer cars had. I can't seem to find if the box wheel covers have the removeable center cap with the screw underneath or not? Heck even if the center caps are removeable I can make them screw on! I;ve just only had box cars with aluminum wheels...

[gadget73]

Depends on the style. The Lincoln wire wheel covers did at least. There was a bracket that goes over 3 of the lug nuts and a special wierd-head locking bolt under the center cap to hold it on. I think the Ford and Mercury wire caps are the same, don't know about the others.

[sly]

I think the wire caps were the only ones that did that. The Lincoln wire wheels had that wire panel bolted on from the back side with several bolts and the center cap was bolted on from the rear too. If the wire caps were optional for the Lincolns as well, then they were the same as the Ford/Mercury ones with the brand center cap as the only real difference.

And all 14 or 15 inch.

[gadget73]

the actual wire wheels yeah, those were a whole other thing. I'm talking about those stupid hub caps that rattle and squeak like crazy.

Those wire caps were actually the premium covers for Lincolns. The rarely seen base model ones were a flat thing. My car, despite being a super no-frills model, had the rattle caps.

[drhill]

thanks guys, trying to hide some larger wheels behind a stock looking cap....

[sly]

Not sure that would be safe since the smaller cap will not center properly. If you made a lip spacer to make up the gap between the wheel lip and the cap lip, that may work.

[drhill]

Not sure that would be safe since the smaller cap will not center properly. If you made a lip spacer to make up the gap between the wheel lip and the cap lip, that may work.

ooops, didn't explain that well, I meant wider.....like 15x10's

[sly]

Ah... that makes more sense. You may have to extend the brackets then. Deeper wheels (typical of wider wheels as they will be deeper on both sides) will require more depth to the bracket that mounts to the lugs or you'll need to bolt a stand-off to the bracket to make up the difference in depth and then screw the security bolt into that (should be the easiest method).

[drhill]

Ah... that makes more sense. You may have to extend the brackets then. Deeper wheels (typical of wider wheels as they will be deeper on both sides) will require more depth to the bracket that mounts to the lugs or you'll need to bolt a stand-off to the bracket to make up the difference in depth and then screw the security bolt into that (should be the easiest method).

Correct, that is what I did, Spacers between the stock type bracket and the wheel cover center hole. Worked great on the rear, the front I had to go to Aero wheel cover brackets and small spacer because my fronts had much less offset

[sly]