wide wheels?

Post by **Casey 65** » April 8, 2009, 9:41 am

I've been looking at the photos from Slick Stock and noticed the look of the trucks with wider wheels on the rear. Has anyone installed a wider rim in a stock innie wheel? When I was a teener, we used to knock the rivets out of wheels and reverse them, I think if you had wheels with the same inner diamenter this could be done. Give a hot rod look to the stock wheels. Just thinking it could be a cool way to get the wide tires on a slick...

Gritsngumbo · Post by **Gritsngumbo** » April 8, 2009, 9:46 am

Casey 65 wrote:When I was a teener, we used to knock the rivets out of wheels and reverse them

I thought I was the only one who remembered doing that

. You can also just flip the stock outers and move the tires out to fill up the wheel well better.

Post by **Casey 65** » April 8, 2009, 9:50 am

LOL, I guess I'm not the only "old geezer" around here.

slick4x4 · Post by **slick4x4** » April 8, 2009, 9:56 am

i thought back then the wheels all had wooden spokes....

Post by **Casey 65** » April 8, 2009, 10:57 am

i thought back then the wheels all had wooden spokes....

WATCH IT, SONNY!!!!!!!!!!!!

jwh f-100 · Post by **jwh f-100** » April 8, 2009, 11:03 am

Check this out Casey..

http://fordtruk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6520

Gritsngumbo · Post by **Gritsngumbo** » April 8, 2009, 12:15 pm

Casey 65 wrote:LOL, I guess I'm not the only "old geezer" around here.

No you're not. I'm so old I'm allowed to call "Uncle Skip" just "Skip"

jeffw · Post by **jeffw** » April 8, 2009, 12:43 pm

I just got these,,,

Post by **Casey 65** » April 8, 2009, 1:27 pm

They are good looking wheels!

Bills 66 · Post by **Bills 66** » April 8, 2009, 3:16 pm

If my memory serves me we used caddilac rims as they were the widest you could find oem (junk yard) and welded in ford truck centers to the offset we wanted. We would tack and check the trueness with a old spindle and brake assembly welded to a piece of pipe driven in the ground. Adjustments were made with a five pound sledge. I have been over the century mark with those rims and they seemed to be OK.
Bill

Gritsngumbo · Post by **Gritsngumbo** » April 8, 2009, 3:43 pm

Bills 66 wrote:We would tack and check the trueness with a old spindle and brake assembly welded to a piece of pipe driven in the ground. Adjustments were made with a five pound sledge.Bill

Technology? We didn't need any stinking technology. Nothing like shade tree engineering. Those were the days.

statesblue · Post by **statesblue** » April 8, 2009, 4:27 pm

If you are running 5 x 5 1/2"s you can buy 8" wheel shells from Speedway or whoever and weld in your centers.

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