Southern Washer

Is there a 17 inch steel wheel that will fit a 93 drw 350?

Southern Washer

anyone ???

Ace

I'd like to know too. I'll be in the market for wheels this summer myself.

loch

discount tires has rims for our trucks, however i do not know if they have a steel wheel.

trublu69

Speaking of wheels, has anyone seen any really good looking alloys for a dually? Also, anyone know how these show trucks with duallies get matched rims on without the massive offset (front to rear)?? that opens up the wheel choices immensely.

eyoung429

Don't know myself....I am looking for some to go on my '91 W350 Dually...what's the tallest tire in a 16in rim that can be run on these 1st gens?

trublu69

On the dually you have to watch the tire width (which usually increases with height) there are some 33's and 34's out there for 16" wheels but I think you'll find they'll be touching on the rear. With 3.73's a good (normal) size is the 235/85, you might find a 31 out there thats narrow enough.

Good Luck

kiszka6911

Dually 1st gen rims are kind of special animals. The rims are coined which is a fancy way of saying they have reverse acorns nuts. The coins also locate the inside dual wheel to the outside dual wheel.

Our wheels are not centered on the hubs, they are lug centered, the inside holes are clearance, .030-.050" larger then the hubs.

Phyically 3rd gen 17" dually rims will bolt on our trucks. The issue comes up on how to center the inside dual wheels. You can use a spacer ring when bolting on the inside duals, this will be a .030-.050 steel or plastic ring. The other option is to go to Ford wheels which a larger hub hole so you can have a thicker centering ring. (you could also incorporate a spacer 1/2" max into the design to get addtional tire sidewall clearance.)

So centering the inside dual tire is an issue with non coined rims. Some guys run hub centric flat faced rims without troubles. I choose to stick with the coined style rims and lugs becasue of the loads I carry.

Lug nuts also become and issue, our trucks use 5/8-18 lugs which is the biggest stud in light truck world, alcola is the only one that makes flat faced washered lugs that I could find.

As for spacing and tire sizes. I laid this all out on a long sheet of paper using all the rim backspacings and tire sizes with the goal of running 265-75-16 tires.

Dually rims only come in two backspacings 5" and 5.300" Stock first gen wheels are 5" (215 tire width), newer 1st gens which came 235 width tires and aftermarket rims are 5.300". The 5.300" rims backspacing gives you an extra .600" between the tires. With any of the 265 tire widths (16" or 17") the math shows a zero tire gap between the duals with no load. I see guys running them but its not something I would do. The tires rubbing together is problem and will casue a failure.

www.southwestwheel.com is who I got my steel dually rims from, see my pictures.

I plan on cleaning up a set of my old rims, have the media blasted and powdercoated to match and running duals both front and back when running in Michigan mud. Longer studs (rear studs) will be required in the front hub to do this but I think it looks cool.

BearKiller

Believe it or not, a few years ago, I GAVE AWAY six 17" coined rims that had been laying in our way for years.

This was before the 17" tire became so popular on newer trucks.

I don't know exactly what these rims were originally on; but, I do remember that when the owner found out what six 17" BIAS tires were going to cost, he went to the junk-yard and came back with a set of 16" rims.

He left the seventeens and told us we could sell them, junk them, or whatever, because he didn't ever want to see them again.