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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Wheels & Tires => Topic started by: howlinwolf on September 04, 2013, 08:18:21 am
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Exactly that, what year truck would have 16 inch 6 lug, preferably steel, that would fit a 78 1/2 ton 4x4. i had a set of aluminum wheels someone gave me, but the hole for the hub was too small. They were off of a 88+.
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Aftermarket if you want 16's
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According to the SPID information, my '74 K10 came from the factory with 16" 6-lug steel wheels and bright hubcaps. When I got the truck back in the late 90's the 16" wheels were long gone.
For new wheels, Dexter wheel makes 16" 6-lug, painted steel wheels that accept the 3/4-ton hubcaps...
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99-04 Silverado & Sierra. Mine are 16" with 6 lug bolt pattern, i'd sell you my spare set if you lived close lol
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I used to have a set of 4. They were on my 6 lug car trailer with 7.50x16 tube tires. Regular dog dish hubcaps fit on them. What I don't know is if they were tubeless rims or not.
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I was thinking the 16's rims for our trucks were not tubeless?
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I was thinking the 16's rims for our trucks were not tubeless?
If I remember that era, none of the 16's where tubeless. My 72 had split rims and I went to 16.5's to go tubeless and radials...
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That is what I was thinking.
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my 16X7.25(or what ever) from my 78 3/4 ton (8 lug though.) had tubes
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Try 1984 and older. What is the diameter of the center hole?
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like gusgusa said the diameter is the problem once gm went to idf 88+ they made the center hole smaller and they wont fit
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I have 8 lug 16" wheels with 245/75R16 tubeless tires on my '75 GMC K25. My original wheels were split rim 16.5" with 9.50x16.5 tires.
Tubeless 16" rims with either 6 lugs or 8 lugs used to be very common in the junkyards, but I haven't looked in a while. You usually had to pull them off one of the trucks, so it was easy to verify they would work on a square body.
Bruce
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im not sure what the center hub size is
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I beleive the older vehicles were 4" and new ones are 3".
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Exactly that, what year truck would have 16 inch 6 lug, preferably steel, that would fit a 78 1/2 ton 4x4.
Wheels from 1969-1987 trucks with 6-lug on 5.5" lug spacing with a 3.65" pilot (hub diameter) will interchange.
6-lug wheels from the '50's through the '80's can work, but 16-inch wheels on 1/2-tons it seems were not as popular as the 15-inch variety. As noted, most of these trucks came with tube tires.
Additionally: the Jeep Wagoneer, Cherokee (Full-Size) and J-10 trucks ran the same size wheels and lug patterns. I know 16" steel wheels were available on some of these models.
As for the tube versus tubeless issue, I have run tubeless tires on many 60's and 70's trucks that were originally equipped with tube type tires. From what I've seen: If the wheel is in good shape and the welds are good and no major internal rust on the wheel, then there should not be any issues.
As noted above I used new Dexter wheels because I could use hubcaps and replicate the factory appearance. There are a number of aftermarket companies (Crager and Keystone) that make 16" steel 6-lug on 5.5" lug spacing, but they are styled wheels.
Here are some photos of my Dexter Wheel 16-inch 6-lug steel wheel setup with 7.50 x 16-inch bias ply mudgrips.
Front:
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ynLJjONBREg/UrTbC1EBVPI/AAAAAAAAAx0/M9hLsA4iPyg/s640/DSC05927.JPG)
Rear:
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-CMEJFeUafGA/UrTbFMgUbaI/AAAAAAAAAx8/hq_7pTWuhck/s640/DSC05928.JPG)
Closeup of rear, 3.65" pilot (hub) diameter:
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-A0xjodzux0o/UrTbIFvhl4I/AAAAAAAAAyE/Cxr204Y_vgU/s400/DSC05932.JPG)
Closeup of front:
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/--Vw5DApTgSk/UrTbK9_KpUI/AAAAAAAAAyM/zJLBZYYxnx0/s400/DSC05934.JPG)
Here are a couple of links of some wheel interchanges:
http://www.okoffroad.com/editorial-boltpattern.htm (http://www.okoffroad.com/editorial-boltpattern.htm)
http://adaptitusa.com/referencebook.htm (http://adaptitusa.com/referencebook.htm)
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Older 3.5"
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3.45-3.5 pilot up to and including 1984