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Pictures of rigs with stock steel wheels and hub caps.

When I ordered this K3500 I always figured one day,when it was older,I'd fit a Dana60 up front. This was before "kits" and you just didn't see it done,yet. Now,after 300,000 trouble free miles I really see no need. I still build older solid axle trucks. This truck has hauled weight and used off road it's entire life. What's wrong with a better ride? What's wrong with virtually zero maintenance? What's wrong with better articulation putting more rubber down for better traction? I have run 285/75s or 255/85s since my second set of tires at bout 10,000 miles. About every 80k it has needed the idler arm and when I put these tires on in Sept. I saw the upper ball joints were bad and replaced...for the first time. I'm a GM fwd guy from way back,have had a long list of tough 4wds and didn't like the change in '88 at all. But after seeing the trucks hold up on the jobs after 5 years I decided to give one a shot and have had no regrets to this day. As far as I'm concerned,the IFS has proven itself as a well designed front end. This is my new truck.
 
Here's the '84 I had before the '92 I just showed. Wheels aren't exactly stock. They're 9.75 x 16.5s powder coated gloss black


 
I have owned a few Camper Specials. Everyone of them had narrow GM wheels.

Martin
 
Plus GM 16.5" wheels have a safety bead. Those wide 16.5" wheels do not.

Martin
 
Thanks for the props. The truck is a Camper Special,but I put the wheels on. It had 7" Outlaw IIs when I bought the truck. They're Kelsey Hayes (OEM supplier) that I bought at a commercial wheel & rim business. They were actually trailer wheels,but that means they are over rated for truck use. Figure a trailer wheel is rated for side dragging stress that never occurs on a truck...unless power sliding on pavement! (otherwise known as "drifting" these days)
 
82355 said:
I have owned a few Camper Specials. Everyone of them had narrow GM wheels.

Martin
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A 9.50 or 10x16.5 tire option trigged a 16.5x9.75 rim. They were made by Firestone as well as Kelsey Hayes. Found them mainly on '69-72 C20&30s camper specials. I've even found them on G30 camper vans.

And in the parts book from '73-'77: 16.5 x 8.25 8 lug GM part # 335616
1973 GMC brochure
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How about something pretty cool I'm sure you haven't seen…16.5x8.25 6 lug…right on the Blazer brochure. They didn't take a hubcap though.
GM # 335636. Number was good from '69 thru '77.
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82355 said:
Plus GM 16.5" wheels have a safety bead. Those wide 16.5" wheels do not.


Martin
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Kinda right. The 8.25 and 9.75 didn't have a safety bead but neither did the early skinny wheels. Somewhere in the late 70s-early '80s Kelsy Hayes started putting safety bead on GM 16.5s. Prior to that, there wasn't a safety bead.
 
^^^ Sexy trucks! I'm familiar with 6-lug 16.5s. In fact,I've even run 5-lugs. There was a time when the only wide truck tire was a 16.5...before radials. There were some 15" tires like the Armstrong Noresman and Gates Commando,but those were more for Jeeps,no much load bearing.
 
I know this is an old thread but I'm trying to find some factory style 16.5x10 or 17x10 8 lug stock style wheels like these that'll work with the factory hubcaps. Anyone know where I could find some or who could make them? Also looking for a good place to buy some factory hubcaps.

When I first started driving everyone in town had the wide white steel wheels with factory hubcaps an big tires, and I still love that look.
 
There's a guy on here with 16x8 wheel vintiques, early 70s hub caps on a black suburban. It looks badass.


Surely someone will remember who I'm talkin about? @max 02 might know?
 
Yessir I had seen the 16x10 wheel vintiques but was wanting a 16.5" wheel if I run the 37" military takeoffs. I'd like to run a 17" wheel in that style cause I've already got new Toyo mt 37x13.50x17 tires. I had Stazworks build me some wheels before so I'm gonna talk to them and see about building me a 17x10 that'll work with stock hubcaps.
 
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