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[wildwood]

I need some 8 lug wheelies to move my 1 tons around when they arrive............spotted a screaming deal of 4 rims 16.5" with rotted out tyres £10.......
(my sort of money)

Thing is? Can you get 16.5" rubber in Blighty?

Or should I pass on this?

[Bulldog67]

if u do pass then point me in the direction please

ya lookin at hummer tyres for the road, or mega bucks, my 44's are around £500 a corner from devon 4x4

[wildwood]

Will do....... but these are skanky Dodge pick up rims from an ex air base truck ..... not wide enough for nice biggggg tyres

Just want to put metric 33-35s  (remold junk) on them for getting to events.......

[Bulldog67]

cheers, but im thinkin that i will run some 37" a/t (hummer again) to get me to places such as cheapfest, then will put on the 44 boggers when i get there, but 33's may make more sense if i cant find big enuff wheels

dont suppose u have a link for a list of trucks with 8 stud at 9/16"? Everytime i search on fleabay nowt comes up

[Warthog]

Will do....... but these are skanky Dodge pick up rims from an ex air base truck ..... not wide enough for nice biggggg tyres

Just want to put metric 33-35s  (remold junk) on them for getting to events.......

How about modding the centres of and old set of Steel rims?

[wildwood]

Modding? Tis a bit grown up for a joiner ...... Methinks that will be your area of expertise

Were you thinking of turning 5 on 5.5s or 5 on 4.5s to 8 lug or making spacer adapters

Hey Bulldog you must be reading my (what's left of it ) mind....... 33s to get to Cheapfest and 39.5 or similar for mayhem when there

44s on the CJ or a FSJ?

[Bulldog67]

44's already on the J20

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[Bulldog67]

Found this one, may be a clearer pic:

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[wildwood]

Well I'm envious Think they might look a tad tooooo big on the YJ tho!

[Bubba]

his will last longer than yours too

[wildwood]

Not sure if that's due to my driving style you witnessed..... up a tree?

or just maybe the 'occasional' use of the J10 by BD??

[Bubba]

both have there merits        realy wish there was a vid of the tree moment it was worth watching

[Bulldog67]

Not sure if that's due to my driving style you witnessed..... up a tree?

or just maybe the 'occasional' use of the J10 by BD??

well i do occasionally get the covers off, jump in the cab and wonder would it will drive like when the 360 is in 

[Bubba]

death wobble at a chance

[wildwood]

Must have been a 'red mist' moment or not having the doors on for the first off roading this year........

Was only afterwards that I thought of all the time I've spent putting winches at both ends..... and why was it that I chose not to use them

[Bulldog67]

death wobble at a chance

that requires speed does it not? cant see me doin any of that in the J20

[Bubba]

it can kick in almost at any  speed a hump or ropple in the road can set it off if the wheels and the lift are good all may be well

[Warthog]

Modding? Tis a bit grown up for a joiner ...... Methinks that will be your area of expertise

Were you thinking of turning 5 on 5.5s or 5 on 4.5s to 8 lug or making spacer adapters

Just throwing the idea out there? What's that PCD of the 8 lugs? Couple of thoughts I have are; 1- lathe centres out of a old set of 16's and replace the centres with new machined ones? 2- Remove the centres of the eight lug rims and fit them to a set of 16's?
It will take time patience to get spot on trueness. But interesting....

[wildwood]

Similar to a 'Pirate' thread then? New centres in old wheels..... Like turning H1 wheels from 7" backspace to 4 " backspace with new centres....Yes I like it.... Just need the wheels now...


Also "seen" for sale £600..................

4 Hummer H2 wheels and tyres

They are the alloy ones in a 17" flavour but with a 5" backspace 8.5" wide and with 315x70x17  AT which equals 34.6" tall

Trouble is all the affordable big mudders are 16" flavour

[Nosebolt]

something we did on the beach buggy was to use truck wheels on the back and made adaptor plates the convert 6 stud to 4 stud, might be worth investigating

[Panic mechanic!]

Also "seen" for sale £600..................

4 Hummer H2 wheels and tyres

They are the alloy ones in a 17" flavour but with a 5" backspace 8.5" wide and with 315x70x17  AT which equals 34.6" tall

Trouble is all the affordable big mudders are 16" flavour

just a bit of free info about hummer alloys a lot of them fracture in the rim so if you get a set make sure you check em,the hummdinger is on its 3rd set due to them fracturing after hitting pot holes

[wildwood]

Gonna pass BD so here is the ebay link for the Dodge wheels going in an hr £10

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250691402032&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_500wt_1154


Just got myself some H2 wheels with ATs 4 of them for £500............. bloke wanted £800 they didn't sell

[Bulldog67]

Cheers Jez, bit far for me, even at a £10

[Dave69]

can you get blank hubs and re drill the bolt positions to a more suitable rim pcd

[wildwood]

I know that in USA via 'Pirate 4x4 forum" that they get centres cut for them and re-centre H1 wheels to get less backspace from the 7" that they come with.

So I can't see why we couldn't get any type of 16" rim and get 8 lug centres cut to  recentre the rim  to get the correct 8 lug pattern