Ha! No argument there!

 

FWIW, back in the 50s thru 80s it was fairly common to weld on light truck and tractor wheels. This was before the aftermarket wheel industry matured. There were independent shops that had crude lathes set up and would cut the rim somewhere on the circumference. Carefully, they would weld in a band of steel around this section of the rim and then weld the other section of the rim to this new band. You could have the wheels modified to any width within reason. Most I ever saw was probably six inches. Of course, they looked funny, exposed the sidewall, and did nothing for the tire strength. The quality of the product was of course, dependent on the skills of the welder, operator. "Split Rims". This gave better floatation in Florida sand.
A set of split rims with tires aired down on the rear of a two wheel drive pickup, and a good driver could go almost anywhere. I ran split rims on at least two pickups and one Ford farm tractor and never had a leak or failure. Every grove tractor that I've ever seen had a variation of split rims or wide factory rims.
I would have no problems welding a drop center rim to a wheel center section.

 

Bahahaha!!

 

Anyone know what size tire this beast wouldve had stock on these 20" wheels? Has 10.00- 20 rear and 8.25- 20 front. Want to have all six match in size, (hate the stinking look, lol) and want to go as close to stock as possible. Thanks!

 

Stink bug look I mean. Lol

 

A 6.5" rim could have been fitted with either 8.25" or 9.00" tires. A 7.00" could have been fitted with either 9.00" or 10" tires. If you are gonna do modifications to 22.5" rims, the radial sizes are always equal to one size bigger of the bias ply tube types. For instance, an 8.25" bias equals a 9.00" radial, 9.00" bias equals a 10" radial, and so on. Stu

 

Awesome. Thanks Stu. Not quite sure what I'll do yet, but appreciate the options. On a positive note, I did get it started yesterday, just couldn't wait anymore. Ran REAL good. First start in 39 years, according to my buddy. Video on YouTube

 

Sweet!

 

If you see the video, you'll have to forgive the part where im bragging...my wife said no way it would run, I told her to give me an hour, a pliers, and a screwdriver. Lol. Shes not as enthusiastic as me about this old girl. She told me to name it Mama June. Bahahaha!

 

NICE! Thanks pilot31...wouldnt let me share the link.

 

Congratulations! Nice truck. You were grinning like a dog eating bumblebees. Make more vids!!

 

Took 3 hours to get that thing on the trailer where it was sitting and it wouldn't steer with those front flats. Changed the oil with some fresh 15-40 right were it sat on
the trailer, cleaned the points, and zip tied a lawn mower fuel tank to the wiper with new fuel line to fuel pump. Fired right up!

 

Now I can DRIVE it off the trailer. Lol

 

Dog eating bumblebees......bahahaha! Thanks for the compliment on the truck. Now anyone got a speedometer laying around?

 

Congrats! It sounds real good.