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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: carmichael, ca.
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trying to swap tires and wheels off of a '69 1 ton to a '71 3/4 ton and found out the wheel studs on the 1 ton are 1/2" and the wheel studs on the 3/4 ton are 3/4". That was a bummer. So I figured just make a quick trip to Pep Boys for lugnuts, right? Wrong! Tried to just fit the 16 inch wheels off the 1 ton on the front of the 3/4 ton and they won't even fit around the brake caliper. So lugnuts wouldn't of helped. Why would the 3/4 ton have everything so much bigger than a 1 ton?
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Southern Pines NC
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Re: 1 ton vs. 3/4 ton
you have drum brake wheels (69) most of them if not all will not fit on disc brake suspension. Need to find 71 and later 8 lug wheels and look at the inner side of the wheel and see if it slopes gently from the lip (drum) to the center of the wheel or goes horizontal for a bit then slopes toward the center Disc) an over simplification but it will be obvious
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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
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Re: 1 ton vs. 3/4 ton
in 71, the studs got bigger, and also the wheels chainged to clear the calipers. The wheel chainged shape on the 1/2 tons too, the 6 lug drum brake wheels won't fit on 6 lug disks.
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: carmichael, ca.
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Re: 1 ton vs. 3/4 ton
thanks guys. Thought I was going crazy.
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Eldorado Ca, an hour east of sacramento
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Re: 1 ton vs. 3/4 ton
they will be 9/16" studs, not 3/4"
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: carmichael, ca.
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Re: 1 ton vs. 3/4 ton
new somebody would set me straight. Did you acquire more toys?
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