Thread: Commodore steel 16 inch rims on disco 2

Originally Posted by stallie

Good info, thanks. I too am looking at replacing the axle and wheels of a All Terrain Camper Trailer with D2 compatible wheels. This gives me a good place to start.
After I finish stacking the winter fire wood, and painting the new study and putting on a new laundry door and building the kids cubby and refitting the dashboard and instruments to the TR6 and painting the eaves and fixing the throttle on the ride on and putting in the new clothes line and weeding the garden beds and pruning the roses and .....

I have commodore hubs and Disco 2 alloys on my Redback Camper, been on there for 5yrs

When the new Disco arrives I will change them to suit it too, it's very handy having the same wheels on the camper and car, got me out of a bind once.

Baz.

Originally Posted by Pacemaker

My 18s have about 1 mm larger hole than hub. So there is no strength coming from the centre hub. Saying this the sunrasier style wheels have a much larger centre hole which is no where near the hub on the disco.
Anyway I did 850 kms this weekend with the commodore rims on. I towed an 1180 kg horse float with a 450 kg horse and about another 150 kg of water, feed and gear.total of approx 1800 kg. This was for about 300 kms. I did some medium to hard 4x4ing on Saturday at ormeau and gave the wheels a real hard time and today I drove out to janowen hills four wheel drive park. I met a few club members out there and had a great day. We conquered medium level tracks and a bit of mud stuff. There were a couple climbs we did that according to the map were hard but they weren't. I bounced over quite a few rocks and tried flexing the rims as much as I could.
I'm confident that I could leave these rims on full time and have no problems.
Time will tell.
Michael.

Hi, i understand its been awhile since your post on the commodore rims fitted to your disco 2, but i would like to know how it turned out. Did they stand up, and keep standing up, did u keep em on, what happened in the end basically ????? i am thinking of this as an option, and would like your imput on this topic .... Cheers , Wayne

Originally Posted by Discobaker

I guess it's kinda the same as bolting a 5 speed Celica gearbox to the back of a 253 or 308, heaps of people do it but it's technically supposed to be engineered to get it registered, the original structure has been altered. It was a 3 speed box from factory, now it's a 5 speed. Hot rod builders quite often will use a HZ, HQ Holden chassis & running gear then drop a 56 Chevrolet pickup shell over the top. Have a look at the rego, it's a Holden HZ, but it has to have an engineers cert to register it.

A mate built a street rod using an unknown chassis, a mixture of Auburn and Packard brakes and axles, a Buick Straight Eight engine with 4-71 blower, a GM-H heavy duty three speed (as used behind 253's). Given the go ahead by the Technical Committee of the ASRF, he took it downtown to register it. The QT guy wanted a make to put on the application so my mate told him what was in it . Then the guy asked what did it look like. Built to resemble a mid-thirties Aston Martin. So it is registered as a 1935 Aston Martin.

Try registering a vintage/veteran make that is not on their computer if you really want a bureaucratic runaround.