2001 Dodge Dakota R/T 5lug conversion

[SuperDak01]

Looking to make my Dodge Dakota R/T 5 lug as well as 4 wheel disc brakes any thoughts on this? Would like to stay with factory mopar parts

[MrQuick]

You could just redrill the hubs, it would be alot of work other wise...is this so you can run different rims too?
The Magnum stuff is cool...14" rotors
The SRT8 stuff is nice, Brembos, the calipers at cost are $400 each however.
Maybe you can just run 2004 stuff?

[ProStreet R/T]

why do you want to do this? There are plenty of wheels out there and you can make brake kits fairly easily.

[B Schein]

I don’t know if you could redrill the hubs and fit the bolt circle inside the current circle without any over lap. I really wouldn’t want to weld on the hubs do to the sealed non-serviceable bearing design. I world be afraid of melting the seals and affecting the grease. I had to replace the hubs on my truck and they were expensive I don’t remember the price but the were more then $300 a piece. In the rear you could just get new axels made.

I never understood why dodge made Dakotas 6 lug and Rams were 5 lug it still pisses me off I would love to put the 2500 ram wheels on my truck I don’t know the name of the style but the are usually on diesels they are aluminum with 5 or 6 swooped holes in them.

[ProStreet R/T]

No way your going to drill the hubs for 5 lug, being only a 4.5" bolt circle there is just no room. Reason they are 6 lug is that the suspension platform is very similar to the viper, hence they carry the same bolt pattern.

But really, there are a million wheels available, for what it would cost to change the hubs and axles it would be counterproductive to just buying new wheels.



Hubs are $98-185 each from rockauto.