More on hummer wheels

Ok guys I just scored 8 tires from surplus hummers 4 of which are mounted on h1 military beadlocks for 250 is that a deal? is it worth the time to modify them to fit the cucv 60front and 70 rear thats in charlie. the tread on the tires is deep enough that if u do the penny test the penny almost dissappears in the tread. If I do modify the wheels any tips and tricks on getting them as true as possible. I have a collage degree in welding and have welded everything from art to 2 million$ pieces of equip. but never refabbed wheels to get them straight and viberation free as possible any and all input is wanted and apprecieated
Bobby

You have a degree in an art form in which bits of objects, as newspaper, cloth, pressed flowers, etc are pasted together on a surface in incongruous relastionship for their symbolic or suggestive effect??

Sorry dude had to say it-last time I spelled a shock name incorrectly I got shet for a week:lol:

I think 2" spacers is the way to go. It should clear everything and be the cheepest way. If you are not going to hard wheel it it will be ok.

nothing works better then duct tape and bailingwire

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Originally Posted by Tomahawk715

You have a degree in an art form in which bits of objects, as newspaper, cloth, pressed flowers, etc are pasted together on a surface in incongruous relastionship for their symbolic or suggestive effect??

Sorry dude had to say it-last time I spelled a shock name incorrectly I got shet for a week:lol:

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ok so I did not have a spelling class in college or the two women I was living/sleeping with had my mind on things other than school or both but anyhow do I need grammer to fix these rims? And I wheel hard enough that spacers don't seem safe we wheel miles from nowhere around here and if U break it it can take days to get it out. yesterday I destroyed a 38.5 gumbo and now I am out of spares so I need to get started on my H1 rim project!!
PS. I wheeled with 3 Rubicons all day ranging from almost stock to wildly modified. Thay were looking for things they could do that Charlie could'nt and they only did it when they decided to go 45 mph on pretty rough stuff the suspension on charlie did not handle the waterbreaks very well but to his credit one guy said he wanted to slow down but he was afraid I would monster truck his jeep because on the smooth straights I could have run over him thanks to a healthy V8.

Are they 8 bolt or 12 bolt rims? You should just sell them to me and buy a set of aftermarket beadlocks instead, lol. I will happily run them on my Ramcharger with a 2" steel spacer.

I have some 12 bolt but shipping would be a killer.

Depends on what you want for them, lol. They should be UPS-able, but in the end it might be cheaper to put them all on a pallet. How many do you have complete? PM me with your asking price on the rims, please.

Busy at work and have not been able to play here. I will see this weekend what I have. I am thinking around $75.00 each on the 12 bolt.

No hurry, Sermis. It might be after the first of the year before I move on getting my rims but they can be hard to find at times and I like to have a line in the water so to speak. Whenever you have time just let me know on here or over on SS.

How may would you need? I might be getting some this weekend.

Four would be the minimum, 6 would be the maximum I would need. I'd like to have a spare and then the 6th would be nice as a "spare spare" in case I needed parts or one was damaged. It all depends on price, though. Are they complete with the runflat insert?

Lanty, you know the run flat inserts are very heavy? Like 60 pounds each for the 16" ones.

All of the 12 bolt rims I have seen have the rubber run flats. If I was going to run the tire with the run flats in them I would take the rubber and turn off the run flat part and use it as a bead lock insert. The run flat is designed to get you out of trouble if the tire goes flat and you still need to drive. I think the hard rubber would damage the tire if driven on.

If its any cheaper, I have some solid rubber run flats for 16" rims. 45236

Tim, are you sure about the 60lbs?

Rubber ones are supposed to be about 35, and I have it in my head the mag ones in my rims are lighter yet.

And they will ruin the tire if you decide to use them when you have a flat. Not worth it in my opin unless its a trail only rig w/o a spare

I was talking about the solid rubber run flats on the LAV rims my XZL tires came with. I can't check the weight because I buried them as part of my shooting back stop a year ago.

I didn't mean to muck up this thread arguing about run flat weight. Sorry about that Sermis and Lanty.

I'm not super concerned about the weight. I would like to keep the runflats intact just to preserve their emergency usage. In my mind, the ability to take the rim apart on the trail will allow me to repair a tire if I need to, but if I'm ever in a situation where stopping is not a good idea and I have a flat, then it would be nice to be able to get to a safer spot without tearing the rim up or loosing the ability to move. I will most likely just use my HiLift and put the spare on and repair the tire at another time. The onboard air compressor should make patching tires a snap.