Budd wire wheel questions

[fordrelic]

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.

[Kevin Pharis]

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

[frontyboy]

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

[blauvelt]

Sent an email on this.

Will the Budd hub bolt to a full floating axle flange? Or is that going to create a whole other mess? Thanks.

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

[Karl Von Neumann]

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

I'm curious if you have pics of this is love to see. I have a set of Overland budds