as title says im looking for the 8 lug aluminum wheels for my 94

 

Try looking online at tire rack. I like the type 62.

 

If your looking for used they are getting rare. Try craigslist around you. I found a set before i got my 87 for 150. with tires didnt think i would need them. Now that im looking.......

 

Make sure they are 8 x 6.5" wheels, 97 and older F250 or F350.

99 and newer are 8 x 170mm and will not fit.

 

i believe up to 99 dodge wheels will fit and up to about 95 chevy wheels will fit as well not positive on the chevy though

 

Dodge and Chevy have yet to change bolt patterns, same with E-Series vans, however, offset has changed on the lot of them. I know on a first gen Dodge the 03+ wheels need a spacer, but, they have pretty narrow axles to start with...

 

I still have to figure out wheels I have on mine so I can get a rim for a spare to match. The aluminum ones are getting hard to find in 16.5 tire size. As long as I can get military take offs I will stay with this tire size. After that I am at a loss lol.

 

its a bummer lol as almost every other idi or early body style powerstroke i see has the factory aluminum wheels mine has hub caps and im missing one much much rayher have the wheels lol

 

I have two sets of extra rims. The first is a set of 16.5 inch rims that came on my 89 that was purchased at an auction. It was too expensive and difficult to find tires for those rims so I went ahead and got a stock set from junkyards. I then purchased another IDI, a 93 turbo that came with some nicer looking aluminum rims. They are both outside of New Orleans, I am in NC but will be headed back this weekend, I would be happy to take some photos of each set. I also have like 3 maybe 4 spare rim/tires that came with each truck, one is even the old school type that I heard can blow a roof off a warehouse but I can't seem to remember the type of rim, it is a split-something or other. Let me know if you are interested. I would like to know how to blow that rim up too.

 

The split rim is basically obsolete since tubless 16 inch tires came out.What do you want to know about it.

 

im intersted in any 16 inch aliuminum wheels

 

I will get back to you on those 16" rims I have in a week or so if you haven't found some already.

How can I safely make it blow up like I've heard about? I have lots of time and space and I've heard stories of these things taking peoples arms and roofs off. It would be cool if I could shoot it or do something else to make it launch.

 

When a split rim blows apart, the next town over is the best place to be.

Back in the day, they were common on big trucks.
All shops that did tires had cages, 4 or 5 4" U shaped pipe turned with the open part down and welded to a flat plate.

Before inflating, you rolled the tire and wheel into the safety cage, then inflate.

I have seen several cages that had bent sides where the rim hit it when it came apart.

Figure out how many square inches of surface area is on each side of a tire, then multiply that by 50 or 60 PSI.

If I did my math right, a 33" tire on a 16" rim with 60 PSI has about 36,000 pounds trying to expell each side of the rim.

You don't want to be anywhere close if it lets go.

Most tire guys get away from the safety cages when they inflate 10.00 x 20 truck tires and 22.5's with split rims since they were going to 100 PSI.

The small ring on the split rim side at a couple pounds was nothing to play with, serious injury.
The rest of the rim going out the other side of the tire with that much pressure on it, deadly.

 

I blew up a 10.00 20 up one time with less than 20 pounds in it and the tire -wheel and all went probably 20 feet in the air, and the ring went out of sight. My cap went with it ,so I considered myself extremely lucky. There is no way to safely blow one up,as the ring does not come off straight and you have no way to tell which direction which wat it will go.
I know of one guy that died and the ring was chained on.
Oh yea I have one of those bent tire cages and they are built stought, you don't even want to be in the air blast at over 30 pounds.

 

Just a few inches over and your head might have been in your cap.

Dangerous stuff.

200+ pounds of tire and wheel 20 feet in the air with just 20 pounds.