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[bigdog55]

When I got my truck, it had 15 x 8 mags. They look good but I wanted something a little taller. So I got some 17's. While looking for a spare at a junk yard I found a good deal on some 18's. When I got them home I discovered that the bolt pattern was 5 x 4.75. In order to make them work I had to use adaptors. This worked for a while. The problem I developed was I started breaking studs. The first time I broke three of them and the tire came off the truck with me going down a major road (can we say scary). I got the truck off the road and into a parking lot. Now mind you that at this point I am homeless and broke. Thanks to a very good Samaritan, that was just out of the military and was a chopper mechanic, pulled the axle and replaced the studs. Not long after that I was moving furniture for somebody (to make some pocked change) I broke three more studs and almost lost the tire again.
The adaptor was messed up this time. So I had to a 15 inch spare tire and rim. The tire was no good. I had to replace it. I have found that scavenging around salvage yards is a lot of fun and beneficial. The small east Texas town that I live in doesn't have a lot of junk yards to choose from. People keep sending back to the same one for parts. I have gotten to know them pretty well. Anyway these guys had a few sets of rims for sell. I started looking for the correct bolt pattern that I needed so I didn't have to use the adaptors any more. I found one set that was the 5x5 bolt pattern. So I made a deal with junk yard and got them. I never thought in a thousand years that I would put on a set of 22's on my truck. Wasn't sure that they would even fit. Well so far so good.

[n33k0]

Yikes! After losing the wheel the first time I would've gone back to the 17's or 15's! Got any pics of the whole truck with the 22" wheels?

There's a saying that goes, "break the studs and lose the tire once, shame on you. Break the studs and lose the tire twice, shame on me..." or something like that.

[bigdog55]

here is a picture from the side