It seems to me that the 92-97 F250 wheels fit our trucks. There are some on Ebay, Hollander 3035's, I've been considering before I get fresh tires, as I think I might have a second-gen rim or two, and that might be part of the vibration I have, the wheels aren't seated properly. At least, I know I have two styles of rims.

 

hey-Hey!!!,
There are two sizes of pre-Superduty wheels; 16x6 and 16x7. They do fit w/o issue. If you buy used, put the wheels on a spin balancer and make sure they're still straight. When it is near tire time I will be getting a set of 16x7's for the 1990; at the local yards it is ~$35/wheel. I'd like a set of the Ford alloys, but I suspect I'd *NEED* to upgrade to 9/16 studs so the proper lugnuts could be used.
cheers,
Douglas

 

I have 97 Ford "alcoa" style alloys on my 93. No new studs are neccesary, just lug nuts. Discount tire had them for $1 a piece.
There is a name for that style nut but I don't recall what it is.I think if you tell them what your trying to do they can set you up

 

All you need is a conical seat 1/2-20 lug nut that is a decent length, and preferably chrome haha.

Those factory 92-97 ford "Alcoa" wheels are actually made by Hollander as well.......I just hate how ford puts the oval on the center cap!

 

That only makes them well suited for the trash.

 

that would be the closest a Dodge has come to being a REAL truck since the introduction of the CTD!

 

I got a couple tires off a guy the other day, I saw they were weather-checked, but didn't realize how bad they were til I went to mount them. The bald tire went back on the rim. He was a bit upset when I told him I didn't want the rest of the set because of it, he said that's just cosmetic. Let's see, the rubber is so dried out it's cracking, that's not cosmetic.

He has an 86 F250 with aluminum wheels and almost-new tires that he tried to sell me. But the motor in it is locked up. I told him that the wheels from an 86 won't fit.

MARF (or anyone else), do you have a picture with the aluminum wheels on your truck? I kinda like he look of the steelies without hubcaps.


I was changing tires for the bale trailer the other day and found a rim off the first-gen the boss used to have. It's got "92 XXX" stamped in it. It's got a decent Hankook Dynapro MT on it, but in 245/75.

 

That seems strange to me; I have 1985 steel Ford 16x6 wheels on my D250. What is the issue? Are they 6-lug half-ton?
cheers,
Douglas

 

I have a feeling he'll want way too much because they have "almost new" tires that are so dry-rotted I'd be afraid to use them for a wagon tire. He says the tires are almost new, yet he bought the truck for parts because it has the 6.9, and the motor is locked up.

I just get the feeling he's way too full of something that came out of the south end of a north-bound bull.

Anyone around NJ need/want tires? I'd get them but the 3000 mile round trip would make them expensive.
Ebay Item number: 250884681688

 

Hollander doesn't make wheels... they make a numbering system that autowreckers use. Alcoa makes the Ford aluminum wheels, and AccuRide makes the steel ones.

I run Ford 16x7 steels all the way around on my D250. Try to get the acorn bulge style in 1/2"-20. The bulge has a fatter seat and makes up the difference for the larger stud holes in the wheels. I'm having trouble getting them locally, so I'm running a thin wheel spacer in the front in the meantime. I fear the stock nuts are bottoming out before clamping the wheel. On the back it seems fine.

 

I am sure glad that I read that bit.

I have several sets of the 7-inch Ford/Accuride steel wheels that I have accumulated, many of them with hardly two weeks of driving on them, mostly from silly rednecks who sold them to me for next-to-nothing when we mounted their shiny new pot-metal one-size-fits-all so-called aluminum wheels.

I have a pair on the rear of the wife's truck with no issues, but I am for sure gonna check out this lug-nut seating business.

We buy those wide-shouldered conical nuts in the right size, in fact in many sizes, in boxes of around 250 nuts.



For what it's worth, both Ford and Dodge used identical wheels, true for SRW and DRW, all made by Firestone Wheel and Rim Division, up until the mid-80s.

Of course, they were both also using all Dana axles and just about everything from the pinion-yoke to the ground was interchangeable.

GM always was the odd-ball.


Did I not read somewhere that DANA was now defunct ??

 

What I noticed is the stud shank on the 2wd rotor sticks out a bit. i.e. its not threaded right to the face of the rotor. It made me nervous as I bolted the wheels on, since the stock 1/2-20 nuts seat really deep in the Ford wheel. I happened to have a pair of 1/4" wheel spacers kicking around so I used them.

You have part number and supplier info? Living on a one-parts-store island is a little challenging sometimes.

 

Living in this poverty bucket where I live ain't no picnic either when you need anything other than a small-block Chevy starter.

I wish I could be of more help; but, the warehouse supplier where we get the nuts buy them in those huge paste-board drums; there's probably ten million nuts in each drum.

They sort of guess them out in plain card-board boxes with the size magic-markered on the end.

 

Anyone have a picture of the Ford Alcoa wheels on a truck?

Bearkiller, might you be interested in parting with a set of them and a set of the lug nuts?

 

I believe they're under Spicer now.