Hummer Wheels

[jonboymcdaniel]

Has anyone tried to put a set of Hummer Wheels on a 2500 Ram? If so will the factory center caps work on them?

 

[Lama]

If you are talking about the original Hummer Dual Beadlocks, I have em' on my Scout. You will find that the backspacing is near 7" BS.



That would be too much for a 2500, because a 2500 only has 4" BS and the back of the wheel is damn near touching the tie-rod end with stock wheels.



You could have the Hummer wheels re-centered . There is a guy in Cali that does them, or sells the re-center plates. He can be found on www.pirate4x4.com under the user name 66CJDean.



Once you recenter them to 4" BS, they will work fine on a 2500. You will end up with a 8. 75" wide wheel on the factory offset. Remember they are 16. 5" wheels.



I have heard thet some people are using the new Hummer H2 bling-bling wheels on the 2500, but I don't know much about that. They are 17" wheels.

 

[Cooker]

I have seen the newer 17" Alloy Hummer wheels on a 2500. The guy said there was a small amount of machining to be done, but I don't remember exactly to what, I wasn't intersted in installing them personally so I guess I let it slip my mind

 

[jkern]

the new H2 wheels require the center hole to be machined out a couple of millimeters so as to fit over the hubs of our manly axels. the bolt pattern is the same however. i have considered this due to the possible availablity of H2 wheels and tires to me for free... but from the measurements that i have figured, the tires won't fit unless i lift the truck about 2 inches and machining out the center hole of the wheels, while sounding easy is actually a very prescion job because of the size lathe that you need and the centering on the lathe as to keep the hole in the perfect center, because the hub hole is used to balance tires on a machine... if it is off by just a little bit you will never get that wheel/tire to balance.



hope i didn't spoil anyones fun

 

[JHerrlich]

I hear that they also make spacers for the wheels that are strong enough for our applications. I think that would be the easiest thing to do.

 

[Cooker]

If the center bore is too small I do not think a spacer would help much?

 

[Lama]

You would need a 3" wide spacer. :--)