Yeah, had trouble with offsets on the rear wheels on my XB sedan, the aftermarket Globes are a deeper dish (made by Castalloy/ROH back in the day) and they stick out and hit the guards, with a 245 tyre. Had a 9" shortened, and ran a 3/4"spacer (I Think ?) just to get the look I wanted. Didnt want to roll the guard lip, as it has the Fairmont stainless trims.       

yeah you can get "HUB CENTRIC" inserts for wheels or the hubs depending on what's available.

the XG front discs could be a direct fit to the front of an XB..
the diff will be a direct bolt in, will need a brake nut change at the T piece on the diff if using the XB hose from the body to the diff. or you can get an adapter to go from imperial to metric and use the XG T piece hose (20yrs newer ) 

hand brake cable will need mods/remade or POSSIBLY an EB sedan one might fit?(seen them into XD, but not older)

XG diff is as wide as the XB one, possibly slightly wider though. 
XG diff has 28 spline axles and XB 25 spline, nothing will interchange on those diffs to my understanding. 

 

hmmm interesting.   Also does the stub axle diameter matter, my XB has the small stub axle (63.5mm) and most wheels I have seen have 73.1mm for the bores, is this going to be a safety issue or do I need to upgrade these to a later model?,  I have a complete XG falcon ute that Im going to part out for it's T5 to go in the XB, so it has discs all rounds and are in good working order.

if you don't care about keeping the drums on the rear, the XR to XY diffs are narrower (might need a different universal joint, we fitted one to an ZG fairlane about 30yrs ago from an XR and it had different diff yoke, which can be swapped over also to the XB type)   as for max fitment? no idea, but the rear can be narrower with a diff swap

Hi Guys,   I recently picked up a very clean low kay (76000km's) XB falcon 500 sedan and I'm looking at putting some decent wheels on her to give her the look she deserves, it currently has the stock 14in wheels with 205 rubber and looks pretty ordinary, for some strange reason the arse end has been lowered 1 inch with lowering blocks which I intend to get rid of...I hate those damn things.   I'm not intending to lower the arse end as they sit pretty low from stock, but I'll knock an inch out of the front to bring things more in line.   I need to find out if the wheels and tyres I'm looking at will fit under the arse end without having to roll the guards.   I wanna fit B45's or V5's in 15x8 on the front with 245 tyres and 15x10 with 265 or 275 rubber on the bum.    Will these fit the sedan? I have seen plenty of XB's with 10's on the bum in the past but never really bothered to look at the actual fitment.  

@Joe XE

My neighbor bent an XD one successfully, just by hand i would bet also. (hollow for horn button)
make sure you are supporting the base part, or you'd just break all the switch part inside. (rare now also)

when he fitted an XE XF steering wheel to an XD . 
I'd say the XD column is shorter, but i've never measured one, and it wouldn't me much, possibly 30mm only . 

Probably just the boss kit for the wheel is different, (its an old thread by the way) I machined a boss kit to fit an XF bench seat in my XA ute, Couldn't get my RRR's in other wise. LOL. Had the bend the indicator stalk with a brake line bender. XA is solid stalk. XD-XF are hollow, so might kink/snap. Find a junk one and apply a small amount of heat, see how it goes.??  

Is this a simple job or are we talking the whole column needs to come out. Or just the blinker section etc. Recently had a couple back ops and jumped back in after about 10weeks and everything feels to close.  Finding it really hard to get comfortable . Cheers Guys 

Yeah it looks like I have the Red speedo cable sender.  I just bought a speedo corrector off ebay that has instructions for the XD/XE.  Just means in the future if I have to change tyre size I can have a perfect speedo. 

if you contact them they might be able to machine the wheel to what you want,but most rear 8 inch wheels would have a 4 inch backspace,you could go a bit more like 4  1/4 or 4.5 on the rear but then you are limited to the size of the tyre ,probly 245 or 255 with 265 being borderline,too me the front backspace is harder to get right if your using a 8 inch wide mag on a xd xe xf,with 4 inch being the biggest i could get on there with a 14inch rim without hitting suspension ,15 inch can go a tad deeper like 4 and 1//4 because its up a bit higher ,i use 15x7 on my xf with 4 and 1/4 backspace but run a 215 and its real close to the suspension ,i run 15x8 12 slots on the rear with a -19 offset which they stick out a bit far but only use a 235 tyre ,your better off just using the performance ford mag the way it comes and stick to its factory backspace,only other way is to get custom offsets and start from scratch but its gunna cost more and is it all really worth it ????