46 tonner wheels
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46 tonner wheels
anyone know if any late model wheels will fit a 1946 one ton. I have the original wheels on it now with dry rotted tires. I figure that while I'm either selling or restoring I want to put a used set of something on it
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I have yet to find a wheel that will fit the Tonner. I have a '47 Tonner (my second) and haven't really found anything with the same 5 on 6.5" bolt pattern that these have. I would like to run my truck with radials and still maintain the stock hubcaps, so I have thought of having a shop remove the centers and put them into a newer wheel. This way the hubcap mounting is maintained, and you can use radials, plus most shops won't touch the stock wheels since they use that lock ring.
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All Tonners are single wheel, 17" wheels with a 5 on 6.5 bolt circle. The Tonners I have had, and all I have seen, have the wheels with a lock ring on the outside bead. Perhaps your wheels have been replaced with later style wheels of the same bolt pattern.
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Technically the tonner's 17" wheels were a 5 lug x 6 7/8" bolt circle. I wish my books showed more about them. The only thing I have is from 1941 that shows they were a two piece wheel that used a solid outer lock ring. The design was termed an "RI" system made by Firestone. I've got some "RH" wheels for my trucks which are a similar design. It is a solid ring that has indents on each inner edge to allow the ring to be squeezed past the rim for mounting/demounting. Best handled by a professional. I have a 1944 wheel listing coming from a guy which should hopefully have more info on these rims. I don't show any newer trucks that used this bolt pattern in a drop center single wheel application. Dodge used a 5 lug x 6 7/8" circle on Power Wagons, but those are dished Budd style with bigger studs. Stu
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Glenn- Have you had the tires replaced yet to see the inside of the wheels? Reason I ask, on the Bonus Built F-2s and F-3s the 17" rims look like one piece from the front side, but when you look at the back side you see a band, probably 1 1/2" wide, that covers the connection point of the halves. They are the bad ones that connect at the middle of the wheel, called Firestone RH-5°s. Like I said above, I've got a lot of truck wheel info but not very much on the tonners. So I'm trying to learn something here. If yours are one piece, it says that Ford went away from the earlier Firestone "RI" two piece system at some point. Thanks. Stu
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