Landrover wheels on your camper

**harlie** · 1st December 2005, 10:31 AM

Hi

I don't know if there is 'off the shelf' units available now. Here's my experience

I fitted braked D11 hubs to my camper (approx 1100kg) about 4 years ago. At the time no one had D11 hubs and Al-CO (brisbane) told me it couldn't be done.

However - I used Late Commodore hubs (stud spacing is the same) and replaced the studs with 14mm (78 / 100 series Landcruiser because I couldn't get LR at the time).

If you use LR alloys, the centre cap will have to machined out by 1 or 2 mm to fit over the outer bearing housing and you will need the 14mm studs for the LR wheel nuts. Steel rims will fit straight on, and the standard 'trailer' studs (actually 9/16) and nuts to suit the 100 LCruiser can be used.

Have not had any problems since it was done.

BUT, the alloys on the Disco WON'T fit the trailer, but the trailer wheels do fit the car. I purchased a set of four alloys from the wreaker so when we do a long trip there is two spares on the trailer and the spare on the back of the car, that gives us three spares that can be used on the car, and two that can go on the trailer, heaps for what we do.

Hope this helps

**duff** · 27th December 2005, 07:29 PM

I dont know if it was cleared up in the first couple of pages. But if you go machining the centres out of the LR alloys you are running a risk.

You will get away with it,,,, but the wheels are designed to use the centre hole to locate and carry the bulk of the transitional loads applied to the wheels. this is why the rim is such a tight fit on the hub. This is not uncommon, the SD1 rover was the same,,, as are many european alloy wheel fits.

The steel wheels are differant story on the DII, on these you are using the wheel studs + nuts to locate and secure the rims.

**Disco300Tdi** · 5th February 2008, 10:38 AM

So how much in Melbourne are a set of D1 trailer hubs with bearings, D1 studs and nuts (steel rims) complete.??

And who has them ??

**rangieman** · 5th February 2008, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by Disco300Tdi

So how much in Melbourne are a set of D1 trailer hubs with bearings, D1 studs and nuts (steel rims) complete.??

And who has them ??

I got a second hand set of hubs off ebay for $55.00 the pair

Try carac trailers in dandenong they have them , im sure the hubs are about $100.00 each new

**PhilipA** · 5th February 2008, 11:00 AM

So how much in Melbourne are a set of D1 trailer hubs with bearings, D1 studs and nuts (steel rims) complete.??

AFAIK ther eis no such thing in Australia.

ALKO will supply hubs or drums with the Rover PCD but the studs are not D1 or RRC, they are AF and the nuts are AF. If you do not plan to fit mags at any stage this is OK functionally.

They will not supply metric and be careful not to buy the hubs drilled planning to fit LR studs because the holes/splines in their studs are bigger than LR ones.
Regards Philip A

**rangieman** · 5th February 2008, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by PhilipA

AFAIK ther eis no such thing in Australia.

ALKO will supply hubs or drums with the Rover PCD but the studs are not D1 or RRC, they are AF and the nuts are AF. If you do not plan to fit mags at any stage this is OK functionally.

They will not supply metric and be careful not to buy the hubs drilled planning to fit LR studs because the holes/splines in their studs are bigger than LR ones.
Regards Philip A

Yes dead right but it is no concern if fitting steel wheels

**loanrangie** · 10th February 2008, 10:08 AM

Ford transit trailer hubs have the same pcd as D1/RRC/DEF etc but the studs are smaller so if you can get these just fit larger studs. My hubs were made by Wesco.

**dmdigital** · 25th February 2008, 09:27 PM

If I understand everything on this thread:

1. I will have great difficulty or it is impossible to fit D2 alloy's to a camper trailer hub due primarily to the centre hole size of the rim.

2. I should be able to get standard steel D2 rims and hubs to fit, but will most likely end up with AF nuts on the trailer hubs

I don't have a problem with D2 steels on the trailer and as trailer spares, I'd just need to carry a couple of sets of steel rim nuts for the Disco.

So why, when I've talked to any of the trailer manufacturers, do they all say no to D2 rim's of any kind?

**Utemad** · 25th February 2008, 09:36 PM

The problem with having the imperial studs on your trailer is that even though you can use the steel trailer spare on your car you can't use your car spare on your trailer if you have mags on the car.

This is my problem at the moment.

**strangy** · 25th February 2008, 09:37 PM

Originally Posted by dm_td5

If I understand everything on this thread:

So why, when I've talked to any of the trailer manufacturers, do they all say no to D2 rim's of any kind?

Because they dont give a stuff about anything not straight off the shelf cos there is no money it for them. Plus most of these folk are drones whose ability to think beyond the norm is only matched by there inability to carry out any actions required by aforementioned thought.

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