ran across these today playing around online looking for old school style wheels. i have been told these will fit our trucks...

 

eh...

I'm not a fan of the tapered spoke design myself...

Personally, I'd love to find a set that are 6 spokes, that smooth of a design (without all this flashy crap like fake rivots and bolts around the inside that so many have), but the spokes were the same width from the center to the outer edge (maybe about as wide as the center of those spokes are on that Cragar)

 

this one might be more to your liking then...

 

I love the looks of those Cragars myself. That would be my choice.

 

:drool:



shazam! that's EXACTLY what I had in mind; those things are HOT!



me likey

 

I think that I like the second one better for our trucks, but the first one sure brings back great memories of the unreal cars of the late 60's and 70's!!! Everyone worth their salt had Cragar SS's!

 

dittto

 

i like the throwback to the 60's and 70's the Cragar's represent. i don't care much for 6 spoke wheels though. if they could make these to fit our trucks with only 5 spokes, it would be no question for me which wheel went on mine.

 

I'm going to let you all know right now when choosing your wheels you don't want nothing with a deep lip. I went through a couple of sets because of vibration at high speeds. I even had them road force balanced and still could not get rid of the vibration. I never really had a issue with that particular style of rim before but something about the new f150s didn't agree with a deep lip. The vibration didn't stop until I put the Saleens on my truck (no lip at all) and that's with just them balanced the regular way (on initial install). I ended up letting my buddy do my road force balancing because I know get a quality balance with him. So the conclusion I came to was it had to be the deep lip style rims causing the vibration issues but hey you might have different luck....Just thought I'd throw my experience with that style of rim with the new f150's in.

 

thanks Joe Cool. i am not sure what kind (manufacturer) of wheels you had before the Saleens, but they were probably not cut to the standards the Saleen wheels are, therefore causing your vibration issues. personally i can't speak about the lip being what caused it. i have had wheels before (on other vehicles) with no lip and they vibrated like crazy. i think it's all in the quality of the wheel, and the standards to which the wheel is cut. there are a lot of other variables to consider. that's the reason i am skeptical to throw a set of wheels on my truck, from let's say, an untrusted manufacturer.