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Just checking ford fitting. I bet you know!!!
bi22le - 15/1/11 at 12:06 PM

Hi all,

I just want to double check that if I have a 4 stud Ford fitting hubs can I fit ANY Ford 4 stud wheel?

I understand there are different offsets but is there any other 4 stud patterns?

Cheers all.

I bet this gets a fast answer . . . . .

coozer - 15/1/11 at 12:09 PM

Ford pattern is 4x108.

Simple check with the tape, but you need correct offset to stop upsetting steering geometry or the wheel clashing with callipers, suspension etc.

[Edited on 15/1/11 by coozer]

MakeEverything - 15/1/11 at 12:34 PM

quote:
Originally posted by coozer
Ford pattern is 4x108.

Simple check with the tape, but you need correct offset to stop upsetting steering geometry or the wheel clashing with callipers, suspension etc.

[Edited on 15/1/11 by coozer]


Some older ford fittings are 4x100.

Sierra is generally 4x108

britishtrident - 15/1/11 at 12:47 PM

Actually Ford PCD is 4.25" --- used from the 1959 Anglia 105e onwards 108mm is just a very very close approximation.

"older Fords" ie pre-1958 were 4.5" pcd.

I don't recall Ford ever building cars with 100mm or 4" PCD.





[Edited on 15/1/11 by britishtrident]

jollygreengiant - 15/1/11 at 12:52 PM

5 stud granada IS different from 5 stud mondeo.

MakeEverything - 15/1/11 at 01:08 PM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Actually Ford PCD is 4.25" --- used from the 1959 Anglia 105e onwards 108mm is just a very very close approximation.


So Millimetres have nothing to do with the metric system adopted in the 60s then?

quote:
Originally posted by britishtridentI don't recall Ford ever building cars with 100mm or 4" PCD.



some Ford Escort models.

[Edited on 15-1-11 by MakeEverything]

marcjagman - 15/1/11 at 01:27 PM

This might help http://www.bikerlifestyle.co.uk/tech/pcd/pcd.html#m

britishtrident - 15/1/11 at 01:54 PM

quote:
Originally posted by MakeEverything
quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Actually Ford PCD is 4.25" --- used from the 1959 Anglia 105e onwards 108mm is just a very very close approximation.


So Millimetres have nothing to do with the metric system adopted in the 60s then?

quote:
Originally posted by britishtridentI don't recall Ford ever building cars with 100mm or 4" PCD.



some Ford Escort models.

[Edited on 15-1-11 by MakeEverything]


I can assure you in the 1960s Britain was working in feet and inches. Metric conversion didn't start to the 1970s and even now isn't 100% complete. To this day many metric sizes for things like aluminium extrusions are simply Imperial sizes converted to metric.

In the 1960 the UK car industry had just completed conversion to a Unified thread and unit system ---- Unified was basically the US Inch based system replacing the Imperial Inch based system.

Ford UK cars didn't go metric until 1970 with the MK3 Cortina anything designed before that was US or Imperial inches (During WW2 aircraft companies discovered WW2 it was discovered a US inch had drifted slightly an Imperial Inch) . The MK3 Cortina/Ford Tanus TC unlike the earlier Cortinas which were designed in Dagenham by a team lead by a US designer was Ford Europe design ie Ford Cologne with input from Dagenham and Detroit.

Also the machine tools used by Ford were built to US measurements expensive custom made tooling is not thrown away overnight and 4.25" PCD was used not just by Ford UK but Ford world wide and Ford is a essentially US company.


All Escorts used a 4 on 4.25" PCD from the start 1967 to the end in 1997

The only older Ford I can think of with a 4 on 100mm PCD is the Festivia which really wasn't a Ford but a Kia based on a Mazda design.

bi22le - 15/1/11 at 03:31 PM

Well I brought the cossie latice wheels so lets just hope they fit and dont rub. If they dont fit I will sell them on!!

phelpsa - 15/1/11 at 04:36 PM

quote:
Originally posted by MakeEverything

some Ford Escort models.



All ford escorts have been 4x108...

g.gilo - 15/1/11 at 04:52 PM

ford 4 stud pcd is 4 1/4 inches on all escorts cortinas fiestas etc.

[Edited on 15/1/11 by g.gilo]