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General Category => GM Tech Questions and Answers => Topic started by: sixball on May 06, 2018, 12:23:22 PM

Title: Death Wheels
Post by: sixball on May 06, 2018, 12:23:22 PM

Here is a link to a thread I started on the HAMB about the wheel that came off of my '53 pickup and why it happened. I put it there because I can post pictures there from my desktop with no online host. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/death-wheels.1106666/ (https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/death-wheels.1106666/)

Title: Re: Death Wheels
Post by: sammons on May 08, 2018, 04:41:20 PM

That can be some scary s**t!  I've lost several thru my early years, usually aluminum slots and fat tires. Funny, I had aluminum slots on my '50 Chevy pick up and never lost any of them. They had a webing on the back side mounting surface so maybe it matched up with the rivets?

They looked like these but 6 lug.