CrashTestDummy
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Well, as usual, I posted this in the wrong dam section. Here it is reposted in what I hope is the right one....
When we took our '18 Tahoe in for new tires, I removed the hub caps myself for safe keeping while the tire monkeys did their thing. When we got back, and I was checking the wheel nut torque and reattaching the hub caps, I discovered that one of the dam things had wandered off. We searched for it for a while, but turned up nothing. So I temporarily. bolted things together while I could order a couple of new spacers.
In checking around, it appears that the only way to get the individual spacers is WITH a new ~$75.00 hub cap!! All images on the GM web stores catalogs show the hub cap, which shows the spacers AND bolts, but none of those parts seem to be listed separately. Tony even has a thread about this in the 'Parts Wanted' section of this forum:
Ppv center cap spacers and bolts
So, I figured I'd do the same thing. Tony did and get some aluminum spacers and modded them to fit. I did the same. Here's what it takes:
McMaster-Carr P/N 92511A091 - Aluminum 5/8" OD x 7/16" L x 1/4" ID spacer
McMaster-Carr P/N 9452K19 1/4" buna o-ring package.
I already had the bolts, which IIRC, are 5/16"X3/4" flanged stainless USS bolt.
The spacers have a counter sink on each end. I made that by drilling a couple of shallow holes with a 29/64" drill (you can probably use a 7/16, but 29/64 fit the counterbore perfectly). I then drilled the center hole out to 5/16". Since I got 5, I went ahead and modded the whole set, even though I only need 1. The rest will go into spares.
The spacers from McMaster-Carr are actually about 1/32", or so longer than the OEM spacers, but this is about as close to a fit as I could find. I'll probably replace all 3 of the spacers on one hub cap so it's spaced evenly, but I really doubt that little bit of difference won't matter much.
Picture attached. The spacer, as-received, is on the. left. Next to it is the spacer after the 'counter sink' drilling, and on the far right is the finished spacer. The OEM spacer is below the other 3.
When we took our '18 Tahoe in for new tires, I removed the hub caps myself for safe keeping while the tire monkeys did their thing. When we got back, and I was checking the wheel nut torque and reattaching the hub caps, I discovered that one of the dam things had wandered off. We searched for it for a while, but turned up nothing. So I temporarily. bolted things together while I could order a couple of new spacers.
In checking around, it appears that the only way to get the individual spacers is WITH a new ~$75.00 hub cap!! All images on the GM web stores catalogs show the hub cap, which shows the spacers AND bolts, but none of those parts seem to be listed separately. Tony even has a thread about this in the 'Parts Wanted' section of this forum:
Ppv center cap spacers and bolts
So, I figured I'd do the same thing. Tony did and get some aluminum spacers and modded them to fit. I did the same. Here's what it takes:
McMaster-Carr P/N 92511A091 - Aluminum 5/8" OD x 7/16" L x 1/4" ID spacer
McMaster-Carr P/N 9452K19 1/4" buna o-ring package.
I already had the bolts, which IIRC, are 5/16"X3/4" flanged stainless USS bolt.
The spacers have a counter sink on each end. I made that by drilling a couple of shallow holes with a 29/64" drill (you can probably use a 7/16, but 29/64 fit the counterbore perfectly). I then drilled the center hole out to 5/16". Since I got 5, I went ahead and modded the whole set, even though I only need 1. The rest will go into spares.
The spacers from McMaster-Carr are actually about 1/32", or so longer than the OEM spacers, but this is about as close to a fit as I could find. I'll probably replace all 3 of the spacers on one hub cap so it's spaced evenly, but I really doubt that little bit of difference won't matter much.
Picture attached. The spacer, as-received, is on the. left. Next to it is the spacer after the 'counter sink' drilling, and on the far right is the finished spacer. The OEM spacer is below the other 3.
