Slick 60's

I've been looking but can't find what an answer. Has anyone that's done the speedway disc brake kit tell me if the stock wheels and innie hub caps work with the rotors they supply? I like the look of the bottle caps and would hate to give them up. Thanks in advance.

I installed the Speedway kit on my '64 F-100 with stock 15x7 steelies. They were wheels from a newer Ford pick-up. No clearance problems. The stock original 15x5 wheels might be an issue. I will say that the brake conversion kit is excellent and the price can't be beat.

typically the early stock ford wheels won't work with disk brakes due to the profile of the back side of the wheel interfering with the caliper. But as noted above, the later stock steel wheels ('73 and later) were designed for the caliper clearance and look essentially the same from the side when mounted on the hubs.

So would spacers solve it? I want to keep my bottle caps.

mac wrote:So would spacers solve it? I want to keep my bottle caps.

you might look into aftermarket steelies, I've seen some used with 66 and later caps so I'm sure it coud be done they added the clips by riviting them. I may do the same to my 64 as a set of winter wheels

A 15 x 6 wheel I have, which does work with discs, is 14 1/2" diameter where the caliper would be. That measurement is taken about 1" from where the wheel contacts the hub and remains about the same to the outside of the wheel. Within that 1", it does taper smaller. Compare this to your wheel and you should get some idea.