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Old 04-27-2013, 08:31 AM   #242
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Re: 8 lug wheels - what's on YOUR truck?

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Originally Posted by -Greg72 View Post
Thanks.

My only other idea was to find an off-the-shelf plain-looking steel 17" wheel and try to figure out a mounting scheme to hang a stock hubcap on it somehow? Maybe just weld the retaining "bumps" from the stock wheel to the generic wheel.... Or create some kind of wireframe mount that would latch to a factory hubcap?

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Dodge actually has 17x7, 17x7.5 and 17x8 stock steel wheels with the 8x6.5" bolt pattern. The only problem is that they have huge backspacing. I think about 6"! So on the old trucks youŽd have to use spacers OR maybe you could "re-center" them for a little less backspacing.

The coolest would actually be to use the old center caps on these wheels somehow....
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