I was wanting some opinions before I decided to pull the trigger and purchase some new wheels for my 53 3100 p/u. Basically my truck has all the original drivetrain and I am in the process of collecting parts to make the changes to make it more driver friendly. I know some of the purests would say "leave it" but I want to actually drive this truck not show it. I am swapping out the 3spd on the collumn for a s-10 T5 and the original rearend and torque tube for a 89 firebird rearend. Once the rearend is in I will obviously have 5x4 3/4 pattern in the rear and I want the front to match, So I would also like to do a disc brake conversion for the front while I am at it....so I will not beable to use my original wheels. I want to keep the original "look" of the truck and have been doing some searching for aftermarket wheels that closely resemble the factory wheel but provide the 5x4 3/4 pattern. From research done on this site I have gathered that the original 16" wheels are 4 1/2" wide with a 3 1/2" back spacing. Rally America has a wheel that is 16" x 4 1/2" wide with a 3" backspace. Do you guys think this will be a pretty straight forward swap and also give me the clearence upfront for the disc brake conversion? I also wanted to stay as close to original on the wheel size because I have brand new bias-ply tires on the truck with virtually zero miles of wear. I figure that I could mount them on the new rims, use them for awhile and later down the road swap them out for a set of LT 215/85/r16 radials. Let me know what you all think... am I going in the right direction?!

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