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A friend is needing help mounting Budd wheels to model T.

Is there someone that he could call to get information he needs?

Thanks for the help.

Most hubs for Budd wire wheels were made to fit Overland cars. Hubs to fit Ford cars did exist, but are far more uncommon. I hear it is possible to adapt the Overland hubs to fit the Ford axles, but have no specifics as to the effort required

Having been using Budd wire wheels on a number of t projects over the years, I found a sure fire easy way to mate your Overland rear hubs to model t axles.

Get 2 26/27 inner wooden wheel rear hubs. Machine these inner hubs to lightly press fit into the Overland rear hubs. Then I tig weld the t inner hub to the Overland hub front and back.

Now you have an Overland hub that will slide on the fit the t axle. You use the t axle nut and pin it and you have the project done for a minimum of cost and effort.

I've converted the front hubs a bit more work and effort. If you machine a dutchman to fit between the Overland inner hub where the bearing race, you can machine the Dutchman to press into the that space and size it to fit the model t race. Overland bearings are much larger in diameter that stock t bearings.

just sayin'
brasscarguy