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RETROVW
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sled
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 2:28 pm Post subject: Re: Can Anyone Tell Me More About this Wheel? |
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its round, has five holes in it, and has rubber around it.
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mandraks
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 3:08 pm Post subject: Re: Can Anyone Tell Me More About this Wheel? |
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| sled wrote: |
| its round, has five holes in it, and has rubber around it. |
looks mostly black from here. 14 inch?
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: Can Anyone Tell Me More About this Wheel? |
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no slots so it cant be bus or thing. Maybe just a weird angle of a bug smoothie?
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Brian_e 
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 4:01 pm Post subject: Re: Can Anyone Tell Me More About this Wheel? |
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| sled wrote: |
| its round, has five holes in it, and has rubber around it. |
6 holes. One is just bigger and is kinda funny shaped.
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RETROVW
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 4:33 pm Post subject: Re: Can Anyone Tell Me More About this Wheel? |
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| It is a 15-inch rim, and the valve stem lines up with the bolt hole. I was told that means it is a Bus rim. It looks like a bug smoothie rim, but the valve stem is in different spot. |
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YellowSplittie
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RETROVW
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 6:24 pm Post subject: Re: Can Anyone Tell Me More About this Wheel? |
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| I have not checked to see if I can read the date stamp, but believe I have two of these. I have several 14 and 15 inch bus wheels, just trying to figure out what this wheel was made to fit. |
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RWK
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2022 5:43 am Post subject: Re: Can Anyone Tell Me More About this Wheel? |
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Possibly a thing rim? they are solid, but 14 in.
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Stocknazi
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2022 7:39 am Post subject: Re: Can Anyone Tell Me More About this Wheel? |
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Looks like a Thing wheel (14 inch/no cooling slots).
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2022 9:26 am Post subject: Re: Can Anyone Tell Me More About this Wheel? |
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| StockNazi wrote: |
| Looks like a Thing wheel (14 inch/no cooling slots). |
Agreed, they have a different offset and deeper dish like the wheel pictured. |
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RETROVW
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2022 10:16 am Post subject: Re: Can Anyone Tell Me More About this Wheel? |
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| The tire mounted to this wheel is 15 inch. I have a few thing rims also and this is different for the thing wheels are 14 and this is 15 |
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RWK
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2022 11:04 am Post subject: Re: Can Anyone Tell Me More About this Wheel? |
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Type 3 wheels are solid also, and 15, but the ones I have use different hub cap mounts, maybe early T3? These are pics of NOS rims. They have similar offset to thing and bus.
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RETROVW
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2022 3:07 pm Post subject: Re: Can Anyone Tell Me More About this Wheel? |
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| Those look close but the valve stem hole is between the mounting bolt holes, the wheel I have the valve hole lines up with the bolt hole. Crazy....Thanks for the info though. |
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busdaddy
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2022 3:21 pm Post subject: Re: Can Anyone Tell Me More About this Wheel? |
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I hate to break it to you, but stem location is a random thing, just like a roulette wheel, it ends up wherever the outer band landed before welding.
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