Ok, so I got a box of center caps in the mail and I want to fit them on my 93 Loyale. I have the 8 spoke EA81 rims pictured below (slight fitting issue with the front calipers and full pads but I made it work), but as you can see there isn't enough room for the plastic retainer ring to fit in there because the inner part of the hub/drum is snug up against the rim. I managed to get the fronts to fit by notching the plastic but the rears are a no-go.

 

Does anyone know what hubs/drums I would need to get that would work to allow the plastic rings and center caps to go on to the 93 Loyale?

 

Just a guess here but I am pretty sure that my 88GL doesn't have this problem. Are the hubs/drums bigger on the Loyales or something?

 

Maybe I can swap the GL and the Loyale hubs/drums?

 

Dean

Try ea82 wagon rims. on 87 and up, using ea81 rims, there is a bout a 1mm clearance issue on the front calipers. An ea81 hub will swap out.

 

Try the drum hub from an 85-86 for the wagon wheels. you can retrofit a whole ea81 drum setup, but it is smaller in diameter.

I ran into this problem on my wagon. I got every center cap to fit except one on the rear drum. I just ran without it but a couple years latter i did a rear disc swap and investigated further. Turns out at some point in its life one drum was replaced and the other one wasn't. The metal lip on the aftermarket one was larger then the factory one which prevented the plastic ring from fastening on the wheel. This might be your problem so measure the lip of your drum vs the lip of the plastic ring and that might show you where your at. Oh an my car was an 88 wagon with the correct wagon wheels for the era.