I've heard that the 04+ years of factory f150 rims will fit the 10th gens (97-03).
Is this true and does anyone have pics of these factory rims on their truck?

 

It is not true.

Our trucks use 5 lug rims, '04+ use 6 lug.

Sure you can get some adapters, but safety is an issue with them.

 

Dang it. Are there any other vehicles that have wheels that will fit our trucks or will I just have to find specific rims?

 

As far as fords go it's just same generation expeditions
Haven't heard of any other common vehicles to have the 5x135

 

Wheel adapters - problem solved

 

Wheel adapters are a bad idea, just get the right wheels.

F-150, Expedition, and Navigators in this year range should fit.

 

If it is something you absolutely have to have. You could change wheel bearing units and the rear axle shafts to the newer 6 lugs.

 

maybe if your a hillbilly who doesn't know what they're doing

 

I've heard hit and miss things with them, so both sides of the argument are valid.

It's hard to get any custom wheels for these things due to their unique bolt pattern. I'm just glad Ford made some good choices in factory wheel design. Really dig the L wheels.

 

Sorry bud, but for how many times I've changed a tire, the wheel spacers where on correctly lol. It's 5 nuts on each wheel. Trust me, if I didn't know how to put a spacer on, my tires would have fell off before I ever got the chance to think about a spacer.

Given a stock wheel with the recommended offset, the addition of spacers will indeed cause greater bearing wear. Both the static and dynamic loads will increase, because the moment arm associated with the contact patch normal force is larger with the spacer present. But basically, the sum of the moments about a point like the bearing center is not zero, but equal to a moment of inertia times an angular acceleration. Thus the total load on the bearing in a dynamic situation can be bigger than the static load, and then the increased moment arm can make this total load even larger. A big factor in the dynamic bearing load is the larger normal force which can act at the tire contact patch. (I am thinking of a right side wheel during a left turn, for example). Spacers will definitely change the suspension geometry. There will be an increase in the static spring deflection, for example, and this can affect the steady-state camber angle. Also, think about the wider horizontal arc traced out by the tire as you turn the steering wheel lock to lock.


But hey, you know more than science, right? Make sure you have very good insurance and please for the love of god don't kill anyone because you where too cheap to get the right wheels.