Hey all,
Will these dog dish caps
...fit these 15 x 7 cop car wheels?
Thanks in advance!
Will these dog dish caps
...fit these 15 x 7 cop car wheels?
Thanks in advance!
Fitment question re dog dishes and cop car wheels
- Thread starter Ross Wooldridge
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Vaanth
Member
The pictured Dodge hub caps will not fit the pictured police wheels (Chrysler #3766077) without modification. Those hub caps are 10" diameter, but the police wheels use a 9" diameter cap. 10" caps were used through 1967 on larger passenger cars (with 9" on A-body wheels), then Chrysler switched to the 9" hub caps from 1968-1989, including the shown 15"x7" police wheels that were available 1978-1989.
Example of a 9" cap on the police wheels on my Newport:
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Thanks! Exactly what I needed to know.
This is my other option.
This is my other option.
67_300_Convertible
Member
FWIW I think either option looks good.
There were some adapters available, but I can't find them right now.
I've also seen this done (on the web that is) with Mopar wheels.
Interesting - thanks - I was wondering how that could be done. If you come up with a source, please let me know.
Looking at the adaptors you posted - obviously they're a permanent weld on thing, and they don't seem to have what I would feel is the required compression bump and under-seat that would prevent the cap from working its way OFF the nubs once installed. In the original installation on the wheel, the cap has to stretch a tad to go over the bumps, and then relaxes as the cap's rim goes past and under the nub present on the factory rims. That way they're very likely to stay in place. The adaptors are simply compression with no underseat area, and I would think they might permit flex movement that would ultimately result in the cap leaving the wheel.
I was thinking of a spring ring that went inside the larger hub cap and provided the grip around the wheel's hub nubs. It would have to have a gap in it to allow it to expand and contract on installation as described above while still holding on to the oversized cap.
I also like these caps which are 9", I believe, but fek, they're expensive. Wheel Center Caps
I would like to use the proper 66/67 Dodge doggies, but I'd like to get some sort of adaptor ring that allows me to use the wheels in other situations.
@Mike66Chryslers - how did you mount your lovely Chrysler ones?
Looking at the adaptors you posted - obviously they're a permanent weld on thing, and they don't seem to have what I would feel is the required compression bump and under-seat that would prevent the cap from working its way OFF the nubs once installed. In the original installation on the wheel, the cap has to stretch a tad to go over the bumps, and then relaxes as the cap's rim goes past and under the nub present on the factory rims. That way they're very likely to stay in place. The adaptors are simply compression with no underseat area, and I would think they might permit flex movement that would ultimately result in the cap leaving the wheel.
I was thinking of a spring ring that went inside the larger hub cap and provided the grip around the wheel's hub nubs. It would have to have a gap in it to allow it to expand and contract on installation as described above while still holding on to the oversized cap.
I also like these caps which are 9", I believe, but fek, they're expensive. Wheel Center Caps
I would like to use the proper 66/67 Dodge doggies, but I'd like to get some sort of adaptor ring that allows me to use the wheels in other situations.
@Mike66Chryslers - how did you mount your lovely Chrysler ones?
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...or these?
https://www.classicindustries.com/product/tlucc.html
https://www.classicindustries.com/product/tlucc.html
I think they were a ring someone was making that bolted on. I can't find anything on it though. I'll keep looking.
Here's a thread on Moparts I found. 67 Dog Dish Hubcaps on Newer Steel Wheels???? - Moparts Forums I don't care for the epoxy idea on that thread, but the bolts look like a decent idea.
I don't see why the spring clips wouldn't work OK.
Thanks.
I have the 68 Dodge dog dish on my wagon with cop wheels. The size is the same as later caps.
OK - so the hub caps in my first picture look like a Dodge version of the "unknown export" Plymouth cap seen the the top row of your picture, and are not the same as the 2768007 cap in the 3rd row of your pic.
The ones I'm inquiring about are smooth on their domes' sides and have a segmented black painted ring on the bottom, and don't have the slight ribbing and single ring as those on your wagon and the 2768007 cap.
Are they the same size, or a different diameter? I guess all I can do is try them and find out.
The ones I'm inquiring about are smooth on their domes' sides and have a segmented black painted ring on the bottom, and don't have the slight ribbing and single ring as those on your wagon and the 2768007 cap.
Are they the same size, or a different diameter? I guess all I can do is try them and find out.
More of these hubcap pics on this thread. Guide to Poverty Cap Applications
3C's & a D?
Senior Member
I've heard of people welding four or five ball bearings to the wheel to fit larger caps.
All great ideas, however, I want to add something to the inside of the cap (if it's oversized), that will allow the wheel not to have any extra additions to it, but will work when I try to put the cap over the hub.
I also want to be able to use the wheels in different ways where I don't want to see modifications to it in the center.
I also want to be able to use the wheels in different ways where I don't want to see modifications to it in the center.
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