Self centering wheels - what years

Hard to say because ford made wheels that have different size center holes depending on the brakes the car came with. If it had front disc brakes the center holes are larger than with 4 wheel drum. At some point ford probably stopped making the smaller center hole wheels. I found this out when I was going to buy some '69 styled steel wheels for my mav. They fit the drum brakes fine, but the rotors I have were too large in the center. Since I might convert the car some day I didn't get them. I was able to locate some maverick alloy rims and they have the larger center hole.

That's the exact issue the prompted my question. A friend at work has a mid sixties Mustang and he's put disks brakes on the front and was saying how he has some wheels that will only fit the back. Then started talking about how he was going to get some that were bigger center holes for the back. Based on my old T-bird I told him he might have a problem if the centers did not pilot on the hub.

There is no problem mounting the wheels for disc brakes on the drums in the rear or even on 4 wheel drum cars as far as I know. Should be fine. As far as I can tell, the alloy wheels used on '73 mustangs, same as for mavericks, only came with a center hole for disc brakes and were available on 4 wheel drum cars. Plus in all applications when the wheels were on the rear they were ment to work there with the large hole.

Almost all cars, trucks and buses use the center hole for wheel centering. One of many exceptions are the 8 and 9" Ford rear axles. Some Renault wheels don't even have a center hole.

Al