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I have a 67 C50 with those killer rims on it, They have the narrow band of steel that hooks onto the lip to hold the two parts together, These are no no's.
I would like to get differen't ones. There 10 bolt on the front & the rear drivers, 9:00 X 20".
The tag has 8:25 X 20" & are 6 bolt.
So what do the rims I want come of from.
Arn't the 10 bolt reg semi rims?
Im not a rim man.

If you have the 3 piece rim they are reasonably safe if in good condition & handled right. It's the ones that are split in the middle that are killers.

Are they the ones that have a split going across the rim from bead to bead? These have the little ring that holds the 2 halves together.
These are in good shape but I thought I would try to find a newer style & put the 22.5 tires on there.

As long as you have tube type tires, you will have to use this type of rim. An 8.25 rim width can accommodate up to 10.00x20 tires. Tubeless rims are one piece drop center, but you will have to buy all new tires and wheels. Despite what you hear, there are still people who change tube type tires. If you look at container trailers, they still use tube type 10.00x20 bias tires with the same lock ring that you have. They are spoke, Dayton, Erie, Webb or what ever you want to call them, but they are still produced today. If they were as dangerous as people play them up to be, rims for tube type tires would no longer be produced.

Try going to a farm CO-OP that does tires or a tire shop that does a lot of farm equipment . In many cases they will be able to do split rims IF you buy the tires from them ( they just don't advertise the fact ) . That's how I got mine done . Most of the new fancy tires stores don't have a cage to use and don't have people that would know how to deal with them safely.

Here's a little easy reading on the big truck wheels. Only the wheels that split into two almost equal halves are the widow-makers. If they are the split "ring" type wheel, and are in good shape, I would use them. (I'm actually looking for some)
Scott

I was told that tires are harder to find for the old rims.
The 22.5 Etc. are cheeper & easer to get.

22.5 are more available because that is pretty much the standard today. In fact I have about 400 of them on the ground. If you are just looking for something round and black, many long haul truckers give used tires away rather than pay disposal fee. I give tires to local farmers who only use their grain trucks during harvest.

crenwelge

Thats what this truck is, A grain truck it only gets used for 1 month a year.
I would like to change them out to the 22.5
Do you use rims from semis than the 10 bolt ones? Are they all the same? Do all the 10 bolt rims have the same bolt hole pattern?
I buy older IH & Chev trucks with grain boxes & hoists to use on the farm.
I like the twin screws & 20' boxes, If the price is wright.

The wheels on larger trucks are 10 hole hub piloted and a few 10 hole Budd type left. Yours are 6 hole Budd type or what we call ball and seat. The inner wheel is held with a stud which is the ball and the seat is the hole in the rim. The outer wheel is held by a 1 1/2 wrench size nut which is the ball and the wheel being the seat. GM offered tubeless with 6 hole Budd probably beginning in the late 50's. So they can be bought in salvage yards and probably still new. A 22.5 from a semi is supposed to have an 8.25 width rim. However, many are mounted on 7.50 rims, especially on farm trucks. The size should be stamped on the wheel or you can measure the rim width like this.. http://resources.coker.com/wheel-tech/wheel-installation/how-do-i-measure-my-rim-width.html
The 2 common sizes today are 11x22.5 which is the same diameter as a 10.00x 20 and what we call a low profile 22.5 which is the same diameter as as a 9.00x20. The low profile are by far the most common and have the load carrying capacity of a 10.00x20

crenwelge:
Thanks for the info, I will look for some used rims & change them over to the newer ones.

I dont think the C50 10 bolt is the same as semi 10 bolt more like moter home 10 bolt using 5 in front
but could have been orded that way maybe my 66 C70 is the 10 bolt semi pattern.

I have the same 67 C-50 truck. I also have the "widow maker" rims. I am switching over to Accuride 28160 wheels so that I can use tubeless 9R22.5 radial tires.

I would also like to fine 4 Accuride 27727 wheels. This is a 20" lock ring wheel that uses 8.25-20 tires and tubes.