Hi, my name is desertbus, and I am new to this forum. I happened upon this forum when doing some research about my recently-purchased 1962 Ford F350, research primarily aimed at where I might find one-piece wheels to replace my 1962 truck's original 16 inch, 6 on 7.25 wheels with. I did find that in 2003 that some folks on this very page (leawq2, 1 ton, davidoldfordfan, merkstang, bobfl, chickentruck, blackar, and Rosati) were in a discussion together about teaming up to get a special run of wheels made for putting on their own '62 F350 and such duallys. Anyway, it seems that some 17 inch wheels were ordered and installed by leawq2, but then the thread about all of that ended, and I never found out how it all turned out.

I also did a search of this forum, and couldn't find any other threads here concerning one-piece 1962, 6 on 7.25 dually wheels. So that's why I'm starting this thread, to see if anybody might be able to help me out by steering me towards any business that might be able to sell me a set of seven new dually wheels for my '62 F350. Anybody? Thanks for the help with this.

desertbus

 

I have been wondering about this myself. I have a 1963 F-350 dually, and I was wondering if there were any 1 piece 6 lug wheels for these trucks. I have noticed that some of the Isuzu NPR and GMC W-Series cabover trucks have a one piece, 16 inch, 6 lug dually wheel, but i am unsure of the bolt pattern, and I do not know if they will fit or not. They just got my attention seeing that they were 6 lug dually wheels. It would be great if these would work, and then you can put on some shiny stainless simulators too.

 

Apparently there were one piece tubeless wheels made for these trucks when they were new, or close to it.
I have a 61 f350 with a set of seven of the six lug 17.5" wheels and six radial 8R17.5 tires, and one bias ply tire.
I am currently swapping newer axles with disc brakes under the truck, and won't need my old axles or wheels and tires. I have worked out a trade with the yard I got my new axles from to give them my old stuff. If you guys are interested in offering more than the yard for them them I will pay cash instead of trade and you can have the wheels and good tires.
On this link there should be some pictures of my truck with the wheels in question.
http://community.webshots.com/user/Grigg3
I am in Virginia

Grigg

 

Two different tubeless tire--one piece 6 lug-17" wheels were available~and have two different bolt circles.

1957/66 F350: B EIGHT D-1015-A .. These 6 lug-17" wheels for tubeless tires have a 6.50 bolt circle (17.5" x 5.25" x 6.50") >> I can't type the numeral 8/letter D without getting a smilie.

1957/66 F350: B8Y-1015-A .. These 6 lug-17" wheels for tubeless tires have a 7.25" bolt circle (17.5" x 5.25" x 7.25")

 

Desertbus is an unusual family name, is it indian, arabic????

thanks

John

 

Hi, John. Desertbus is my screen name, not my real one. One of my distant grandfathers crossed the Delaware with Washington, and he fought as a Continental soldier the entire length of the Revolutionary War, eventually settling in western-Virginia and eastern-Tennessee, so I'm definitely a native. I'm also a U.S. military veteran (United States Coast Guard, 1975-1983...I was a Hospital Corpsman First Class), and I would describe myself as being a patriot. As for the origin of my screen name, I live in Arizona, I have two split-window Volkswagen buses I've owned for nearly twenty years now which have been outfitted for dealing with our Arizona desert environs, and so some time ago I chose to start calling myself in various internet forums "desertbus". A friend of mine calls himself "rustybus" (he has a bumper sticker on his VW bus that says, "Honk If Anything Falls Off"), and another friend of mine calls himself "rattlebus" (not to be confused with rattlesnakes, which are thick as molasses out here in the Arizona desert at certain times of the year). But my daily driver and tow-vehicle for any broken-down VW buses since 1982 has been a 1972 Ford Galaxie Custom, and prior to that my daily drivers were a 1970 E-300 and a 1970 F-100, so I'm really a Ford guy who also owns a couple of German breadboxes on wheels. And last week, just last week, I finally found the Ford of my dreams, a truck I've been searching for for many a year now, a truly rust-free 1962 F350 Ford Class C mini-motorhome complete with a toilet, a shower, a kitchen, and lots of room in it for romancing my wife, and so I am wanting to find some one-piece wheels for it so I can get rid of those old and oddball-sized 7.50-16LT bias-ply tires that are currently on it (Cooper makes a radial in that size, but I still want one-piece wheels that any tire outlet on any highway will service...most tire outlets I've talked to about my current split-rim wheels almost laugh when I ask if they service split-rim wheels, saying things like, "Those things will blow your head clean off!").

 

Is your motorhome a Condor? Several members here have them. Condors were built on the F350 chassis, and feature an all aluminum skin. The front end resembles a Flxible bus of the same vintage.

 

Per your description, ND, it doesn't look like a Condor. Its appearance is like any 1970's class c mini-motorhome, except instead of a van clip it has the Ford truck clip. The rear appears to be factory-created from 1962, since all of the appliances in it look to be from that era (the oven even has baby blue-colored enamel over it, a popular kitchen color of the Eisenhower years, and the propane heater is a radiant heater, not a forced-air heater). It has horizontally-installed aluminum siding as its exterior, mostly white, but with diamond-embossed silver siding as spacers. The exterior actually looks pretty good, but I will be having to re-create the interior. I have a 12 volt swamp cooler and a 13,500 btu air conditioner I'll be putting on it, since Arizona's summers have been compared with being just one bus stop short of hell.

As a sidenote though, to clarify in regards to the earlier answer I gave to the question posed to me in this thread, I didn't mean in my previous post that those Americans with names of Arabic-decent or of any other kind of decent cannot be considered every bit as much of an American as I consider my own self to be. Us Americans, newly-arrived, distantly-arrived, or indigenous (native-American), no matter how our names are pronounced, are all equally American, in my opinion. So to anyone who might have felt a twinge as they read that earlier post of mine, sorry, I didn't mean it that way. Anyway, back to old Ford trucks?

 

Hey thanks for the straightening out, My Bad, I didn't know if maybe it was granted by King George or something like that. Screen name makes a lot of difference. Wilkerson is my name, John R., been living in the Tarheel for nigh 60 years now. I have this good friend here that likes to call himself numbers dummy, but he is an all around BIG dummy, and he will answer to Bill at supper time.

Hey welcome aboard, thanks for your patriotism, God Bless America, and Long Live Ford.

Hay yall stay dry out there in the dessert,......You hear.

John

 

Thanks for the kind welcome, y'all. And I grew up in Biloxi, Mississippi, by the way, a place I hope to visit again soon in my new old Ford truck. And, John, staying dry out here in the desert is usually way too easy already...it would actually be better to wish me the challenge of staying wet out here. I mean, when they named Arizona, they spelled it wrong...they should have spelled it, Aridzona.


Desertbus sends...

 

Don't mind my foolishness bro, just keeping it lite around here.

Got ol Bill stirred up and he has been frothing at the mouth ever since, calling me everything in the world but a child of God.

John

 

i'm in nh-north of franconia notch.lot of "salt" on road in wintertime(groan)my rims are rusted out at the "split ring" and can't be changed anymore! i'm trying to find a set for my wife's f-350 dump truck,(1966-it was her wedding present,really,thats what she wanted)(yeah ,i know ,how did i get so lucky to find her-i don't know either?)all i have found so far is "stockton wheel"in ca. can custom build singles or duals but it's a bit steep.(alcoa co. makes alum. but even pricier!) anyone got something better?

 

The reason Gee Whilikers asked you about your desertbus user name, is because when he was but a few years old, he was hit by a bus, and has wondered ever since what kind of bus it was. His heel got stuck in the tar, and he couldn't get out of the way in time.

 

Most likely a "short" bus!!
Welcome desertbus

 

There is a place in Pasco, WA called American Wheel Specialist that will take your centers and put them in 16" drop-center bands. Stockton Wheel in CA will probably do it too. 16" bands are easy to find, it's yhe centers that are tough. BTW those OE wheels are "lock ring wheels", not "split rims". Very common misnomer. Split rims are actually split in the middle (i.e. the wheel is two halves) and have been out of production since the 60's. Most commonly found on 20" wheels F700, F800 etc. We will not service split rims (also known as the Suicide Wheel, Widowmaker, etc.), however we have no problem servicing "lock ring" style wheels as long as the components match. We utilize an OSHA rim matching chart to veryify matching components (i.e. bases and side rings). Hope this helps.