I bough a set of of nice lariat wheels that seller said were from a 02 or 03 and when i tried to have my tire place install them they would not work. They look like they will line up, but when its time to put them on, it wouldn't fit. Its off by a fraction. The stud holes on the lariat rims are concave vs straight on the 2000. The rims say 8 x170mm on the lariat rims. Is there anything that i can do?

I thought all Superduty/Excursion rims 99-04 where interchangeable, but now it looks like i have an extra set of rims that i am going to have to get rid of.

 

They should be all interchangeable. Can you post a pic? 8x170 mm is the correct lug pattern.

 

I have a similar problem. I sold a 96 F-350 crew cab 4x4 with 7.3 diesel but kept some nice alloy wheels that it had. I then bought a 2003 F-350 4x4 crew cab with the 6.0 diesel. And had the same experience: the 96 wheels are just a teensy bit different, both the center hole and the bolt hole spacing. Not much, maybe fractions of an inch. But they do not fit my 03.
I'm wondering if the older wheels were made to an SAE standard and my 03 is metric (everything else on the 03 is metric)

 

" The stud holes on the lariat rims are concave vs straight on the 2000"

If the wheels you bought have conical lug nut seats they are the older pattern. All '99 up Super Duty wheels have flat lug seat areas and require special lug nuts.

 

Your 96 wheels will not fit because the pattern is 8 on 6.5" The superdutys pattern is 8 on 170mm , The PO wheels should fit his truck if the wheels say 8 on 170mm.

 

They were probably off an Econolone. The E series has a set that looks identical to lariat wheels but the lug pattern is different between the two.

 

 

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I have a serial number from inside the rim;

16x7K DOT-T 1 100300 F81A-1007-MA

 

The photos aren't working. Use the IMG Code link from photobucket. Just copy that and paste it how it is.

 

 

Thanks, it's been a while since i uploaded anything

 

Your pics aren't the best. Is there some kind of an insert in the lug nut hole?

 

With that stamped engineering number in the wheel, they are definitely "F" series wheels, and not "E" series wheels. However, the wheels on my truck (same wheels) do not have those inserts in the lug holes. I think someone installed those to install the wheels on some other truck. The problem is that they may have had to drill out the original holes to install those inserts. Try to carefully bang out one of the inserts and then measure the hole diameter and compare it to the holes on the wheels that are currently on your truck. If they're the same size, then bang all of them out and install the wheels. The wheels on our Super Duties are "hub centric" meaning the wheel centers itself on the hub, not the lug bolts. The lug bolt holes are about 1/8"-3/16" larger than the lug bolts themselves, so if you bang out the inserts and the wheels fit with about 1/8" of rotational play, you are still OK. If not, then you may have 4 boat anchors to sell.


RON

 

I have a set of these wheels out in the back yard, so I went and took a few pics. These are the wheels that my truck came with when it was new.