Billet wheel adapters

Sorry if wrong spot to post this....

I had started with those cast wheel adapters, 4.00 to 4.50. Read alot on here about the fact that they are cast and weak. So, I bought a pair of billet ones. Nice looking units.

However, went to sell the cast ones on a local Mopar facebook page and a guy chimed in saying save someones life and throw these away...but not for the reason I had read. He is saying that he sheared off the 7/16 studs off the car, not the adapters. Did not make alot of sense to me.

Would rather not spring for a set of new rear axles right now if I can avoid it, and frankly the 1" adapters puts the centerlines with 275 BF's in the absolute perfect spot and just clears the leafs.

Am I overthinking this?


I was towing a car with my Dakota with wheel spacers. Inner lugs that you can't check with the wheel on worked their way loose and off came a rear wheel while I was going 55mph on a 4 lane divided hwy. Truck and trailer did a complete 180 from the rt lane across the left into the median facing oncoming traffic. Never again. Buy axles or get yours redrilled and be done with it.