reg cab shortbox dually
 

as the title said im in the middle of a shortbox dually build. But i cant decide if i should go with 22.5 big truck wheels or 2010 17 inch chevy dually rims what do you guys think.I'm going to the shop today so i will post pic tonight

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Lower'd or lift'd, the 17's would look good on that short wheel base, but if you lift it I would lean toward's the 22.5's

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If it is a RCSB DRW I wouldn't go over a 19.5. Otherwise it'll just look like something from a cartoon... Plus the cost difference from 19.5, to 22.5 is steep. Some step vans come with 8-lug 19.5 wheels, and the tire options are decent.

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The 2010 17inch 5 stars wont fit..... so i have read

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like this?!

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^ likes this.

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I agree with the cartoon comment.

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Eeeww....

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I agree.

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Ive thought about a short bed dually several times. Hope you get it together and looking good.

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truck would look sick bagged!

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Surburban bumper, new paint and drop. :metal:

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Aluminum 19.5's. End of story.

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Me too. Pondered stuffing K30 DRW running gear under my K10 SWB. :lol:

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I wonder how expensive this would be? lol

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2010 will 2011 won't. They went to a metric lug pattern for 2011. But the 2001-2010 8 lug wheels won't locate on the hub properly since the dually wheels are fully hub centric and the hubs/wheel centers got 0.04" larger in 2001. May not be enough to mess up the balance too bad, but I know it was a huge headache for me when I was young and dumb and put Dodge dually wheels on my dually, that had a 0.21" larger hub opening, had a slight out of balance feeling vibration at all times, but it triggered a "death wobble" that went away as soon as I got the correct wheels.

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This is where it gets weird then i have seen those nice 17in 5 star facotry rims on both body styles. the new style and the style before it. is there something were missing?

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/k...c-dually-1.png

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What two "styles" are you speaking of?

What you have pictured is the 2011 style with the completely different larger metric lug pattern. The covers look the same, but the wheel behind it is different. The 2007.5-2010 17s would be interchangeable with the 2001-2007 trucks, the 2011 would not.

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thankyou you have cleared so much up i have looked and looked and looked and every thing i read says these will not fit older trucks as they were 2011 only but recently i have seen them on a 2008 dually i knew they were covers but was un aware you could get the 17inch rims for older bolt patterns. so now i must hunt for 2007.5-2010 17inch rims :)

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Yep, 2011 is a 8x180mm (roughly 7.1") lug pattern. 2010 and earlier 8 lugs are all 8x6.5" (165.1mm), although the center hub diameter is slightly larger at 4.60" on 2001-2010 rather than the 4.56" on 2000 and older.

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thanks for the info! very helpful (sorry to the OP for the jack)

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So 2007 is when they jumped to 17" wheels & they'll work on earlier trucks w/the hub adapter?

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2007.5 is the first time the 17s were available. Lower models still had the same 16s as the previous models. And they will bolt right up to earlier models, not sure of any hub adapters out there that are only 0.02" thick to make up the 0.04" difference, it probably would not be an issue really, but it sure was when there was a 0.21" difference on the Dodge wheels I tried to run. If you tried to run them and got vibrations from them, probably the easiest solution would be to take them to a machine shop, weld some filler material around the hub opening, then open it back up to the correct hub diameter.

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Gotcha.

I've been wanting to run some steelies w/caps & rings. I would like to run 17's as the tire does not have the extremely tall sidewall yet maintains my 29" target height.

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You can run the newer style 17s without the covers, and use whatever cap you wanted, you would need the McGard conversion double threaded lugs to adapt the newer thread on caps. As far as trim rings, not sure where to get 17" trim rings, possibly the lower trim level 2011+ 3500HDs may use trim rings? In 2011 even the base models get the 17" wheels because the brakes were upgraded and 16" no longer will fit over the brakes. Also maybe Ford or Dodge may have had trim rings on certain 17" dually wheels as they went to 17" wheels recently as well.