[Oletrucks] wheels

[Pat Cossey]

Just thinking! My 41 has the original artillery wheels and hub caps.
All I did was sand blast, paint and mount tires on them. No problems what 
soever.
I did however keep the drum brakes (original) just converted to power 
brakes. 6 lug wheels and 15"
I do not understand the problem?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kinderlehrer" <kinderlehrer at comcast.net>
To: <oletrucks at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Oletrucks] wheels


> From what I understand, tubeless is a function of the tire design and has 
> nothing to do with the rim, unless, perhaps,  you are talking about wire 
> wheels. There is some confusion since about the same time tubeless tires 
> came out, they invented the safety rim that had a safety bead that is 
> intended to keep the tire on the rim in case of a sudden and compete loss 
> of air pressure.
>
> For what it's worth, I found some original wheels in pretty rough shape, 
> cleaned the rust off with a wire wheel, sprayed them with rustoleum and 
> mounted new tubeless tires and porta-whites fake white walls. that was 
> several months ago and I don't have much road time, but they haven't lost 
> any air.
>
> There are some pictures at 
> http://s1131.photobucket.com/albums/m541/kinderlehrer/truck/ if you're 
> interested.
>
> Bob
> '56 step side
>
> On 1/6/2011 10:49 AM, Durwood B. Darbin wrote:
>> Have you tried using some newer tubeless wheels with the correct back 
>> spacing
>> and installing your own hubcap clips?  There used to be tech articles by
>> Smokey Culver about installing hubcap wheel clips on some F*#d wheels on
>> Inliners.org, Jimmy carter truck parts, Stovebolt.com et al but I 
>> couldn't
>> find them there.  If you Google 'install hubcap clips' there will be many
>> versions of the Smokey Culver hubcap clip installation listed.  I'm 
>> thinkin'
>> that Smokey is a red headed, left handed Texan or Canadian or something
>> similar, but that don't matter, I guess.
>>
>> Durwood @ TESRWNN
>> 51 Chevy 1/2 ton Deluxe 5 window
>> 52 Burb
>> 54 Jimmy 1/2 ton Deluxe 5 window
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>> To: henry at signalpeak.net; oletrucks at autox.team.net;
>> old-burb-club at yahoogroups.com; old-chevy-truck at yahoogroups.com
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