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Old Mar 4, 2009 | 07:57 AM
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Lets See your wheels!! Pics Please

I'm looking into getting new wheels for my truck and I have a hard time with just looking at pic of just a wheel. Can any of you that have put custom wheels on your trucks post some pic 2wd or 4wd what ever lets see them thanks.
 
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Old Mar 4, 2009 | 08:17 AM
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They definitely aren't "new" I took the old Jackman rims from the 70s and had them powdercoated.

Here's the set from when I first got the truck.
 
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Old Mar 4, 2009 | 09:25 AM
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I'm sure there is already a thread about this on here, and I know I've posted these pics a couple of times but I'll do it again.
Here's my truck with a set of Black Cragar Soft 8's size 15X10 with 295/50/15's.


 
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Old Mar 4, 2009 | 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by teds74ford
Here's the set from when I first got the truck.
Those 5 spoke ones are COOL!

This is not the greatest pics - but mine are the alcoas off the 90's trucks. They have 315/75r16 (35") BFGs on them



ohh - I found a better pic in my gallery.


Also - here is a pic when I had the excursion 5 spokes on it for a bit (drilling and wheel inserts required)
 

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Old Mar 4, 2009 | 12:51 PM
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Sure enough! :)
Those look cool. :)

Mine are steel 8 spoke...
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/toe-in1.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/toe-in2.jpg

Check out the lug nuts, got them from Pep Boys, back when they had the
big green cabinet, drawers top to bottom full of all sorts of cool stuff! :)

They have hardened faces so they don't gall the soft steel of the wheels.
Other nuts would stick to the chrome plating and them cold-weld themselves
to the steel wheel and gall the crap out of both parts! :/ Grease didn't stop
it neither. :/

I bought a 60 degree countersink and deepened the holes, gave the new
hard faced lug nuts a larger surface to slide on.

Just did it by hand using a large 600rpm 1/2" drill! LOL :)

The wheels center on the bolt holes not on the hole in the center of the
wheel so you'd expect it to be a real cluster%&# but surprised the crap
outta me... All the wheels I've done that way, 7 so far, have turned out real
good! :) Believe it? :)

I spin them on an extra axle and rotor I have. Removed the grease and oiled
the bearings, it's sensitive to 1/4oz and I can detect crooked wheels that
way too. Discount tire sold me two at one point and one was too crooked
to suit me and no questions asked, got me another one. Pep Boys, same
thing (bought four, one was crooked) but let -me- fight it out with the wheel
company and I lost.

Alvin is a tinkering fool in AZ
ps- Anybody else fix their own flats and buy tires loose and mount and
balance themselves? Am I the only crazy one on here? :(
pps- What did you do to your tires and wheels besides pick them out? ;)
ppps- Experimented with the crooked wheel from Pep Boys first when
deepening the countersunk holes. ;)
 
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