Ok so I hit my medium/heavy duty salvage yard and they didn't have any rims that would swap out. They said what I'm looking for is pretty rare to find anymore. He said he will keep an eye out for some as he does a lot of traveling buying up these trucks from recycling places before they tear them up. He said he was at a scrapyard 3 months ago, and the jackasses operating the machines there, bent up the style of rims I was inquiring. He told them they just ruined a good set of rare to find rims due to their slop operating. But what can you do, most of the guys running the heavy equiptment in places like that are half stupid anyway. So they dont give a crap about actually recycling, they just wanna sell our good metal to china. so they can cut it with tin and ship it back to us, to rust out in 10 years, if your lucky. So really they are just killing the metal market unless they recycle it here in the states but highly doubtful.... but anyway besides the rant of china running the world lol.
how should I go about this... I emailed wheelsnow, they make rims and I wanted to see a price for new wheels to compare cost. The guy at salvage yard said I could swap to the Dayton style rims but I'd have to swap out hubs so I'm wondering which is gonna be best bet for the money, cuz if I do that I'll have to spend money on wheels and hubs vs new wheels... which do you think would be cheaper or more reasonable for future maintenance?
Thanks Mike
Last edited by DIY.MechanicMike; 09/10/2018 2:22 AM.
