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Originally Posted by special-K
I think I'd stay away from the '88-type wheels. For one, they have serious backspacing and probably won't even work. The 8-lugs have less but still inset quite a bit on an earlier truck. Your Ideal wheel would be the GM 16s. Not easy to find, but worth the effort I'd say
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Sigh ......
The 88+ pickup wheels will
absolutely not fit on the solid axle suburbans/pickups. The wheel hits the tie rod end on the steering knuckle before it ever comes close to seating on the hub, even though the bolt pattern is correct.
Stupidly, I didn't realize that until I had the centers cut out of a set of five steel junkyard wheels
(I should have just done one and tested it)
In the meantime, I bought a beat up 1989 K1500 for a firewood truck. It of course uses the same type of steel wheels as the ones from the junkyard.
So my extra credit question for you was if you thought the 16" junkyard wheels with the cut out center holes would be safe to use on the 1989 K1500
pickup at least as spares ???
As far as the "GM 16s" that you speak of - before 1988 I hadn't seen a GM 6-hole 16" wheel since the 1950s. I had a pair of those with mud/snow tires on them that I bought used for the 1965 C-10 that I used to have. As I recall, those will fit on the rear of a 1971+ K10 but not on the front, because of the disc brakes. Of course I don't have any of those anymore, but I remember playing musical wheels for spares.
If GM made special order 6-hole 16" wheels during the 1970s and/or 1980s, I've never seen one.