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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Oxford, New York
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Original 8 bolt white rims
Does any one know or better yet have a picture of the original white 8 bolt rims. I would like to know if they had a hub cap/chrome ring or were they just white with the lugs exposed.
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Los Banos, California
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Re: Original 8 bolt white rims
They have hub caps (there are bumps to hold them on about an 2 inches or so from the lugs).
I will take some pic's for you later, but looking at 5 of them (on my truck)..
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Oxford, New York
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Re: Original 8 bolt white rims
Thanks, does anyone sell them?
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Re: Original 8 bolt white rims
Check with your local favorite automobile dismantler. I don't believe anyone is doing reproductions (wouldn't be a big market for them). Most people change them over to 5 lug these days..
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Re: Original 8 bolt white rims
you wouldn't want original anyways. mid to late 80's and into the 90's (including vans) is a better score. You'll get a 16 inch instead of 16.5 inch wheel, looks stock, holds stock hub caps, and holds MUCH cheaper tires.
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Re: Original 8 bolt white rims
On these trucks 16s were split rims and 16.5s weren`t.So,as mentioned,you`ll want later rims if you are going for 16s.I buy new ones at wheel and rim places.I have a set in mothballs that I had powdercoated white.
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Re: Original 8 bolt white rims
Anyone have pictures of a 8 lug 2 wheel drive that they have made look like the rally wheels?
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Re: Original 8 bolt white rims
you mean the stock steelies with center caps and beaty rings like the rallies?
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Lilburn Georgia
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Re: Original 8 bolt white rims
here's a couple the first one is a later model 16 inch and the second one is a older model 16.5
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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Re: Original 8 bolt white rims
don't quite understand that, there never was an 8 lug rally wheel
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Re: Original 8 bolt white rims
Here is a photo of a period 16" wheel, note the gray locking ring.
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Re: Original 8 bolt white rims
This is the 16.5" wheel.
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Re: Original 8 bolt white rims
There were no beauty rings for GM truck wheels until`88 when the factory went to the silver painted steel 16s with beauty rings and center caps that had exposed lugs making them a type of rallye wheel.The centers are held in place by using special duplex lug nuts that have external threads to accept plastic lugs to hold the centerson.These rims have no provision for earlier hub caps.These late-model center caps may be used on flat centered custom or aftermarket steel wheels using these duplex lugs.The factory uses metric.The aftermarket provides 9/16" for use on earlier models.
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Re: Original 8 bolt white rims
Beauty rings and rally wheels look out of place on 3/4 tons. I have never got use to the generic look of factory wheels without REAL hubcaps since the late eighties.
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Re: Original 8 bolt white rims
I'll soon have a set of 1971 stock 8 bolt 6.5 x 16.5 wheels after we finsh the conversion to later model 16 inch, I have a set of split rims off another truck and I'll bet neither are hardly worth their weight in steel. If I have to pay to get them dismounted and tire disposal is is going to cost more than they are worth.
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Re: Original 8 bolt white rims
...until they`re hard to find from everyone tossing them.There will always be a demand for factory original pieces.The fan club may not be huge,but they`re out there.
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