2nd Gen Non-Engine/Transmission will 99 ford 3/4 ton rims fit on my 94??

[MCharlebois]

my boss has a set with brand new tires on them ,im thinking bonus!!!!!!!!!!:-laf:-laf:-laf

 

[HBarlow]

No. Furds use metric sized wheels.

 

[CharlieFoxtrot]

Adding to Harvey's reply: 98-newer Ford wheels won't work. Older ones do.

 

[HBarlow]

Adding to Harvey's reply: 98-newer Ford wheels won't work. Older ones do.

Good info. I didn't know when Furd shifted to metric size.

 

[SRath]

Yup. For a little over ten years now. To make things worse, dodge changed their center hub size with the 2nd gen, so older chevy and dodge wheels won't fit either. Older 6. 5 bolt pattern fords should, though, since they had larger hub openings.



8-lug wheels used to be the easiest swaps between breeds there were, with fords fitting chevys and dodges, but not vice versa, and with chevys and dodge interchanging straight up. Not anymore.



Aftermarket 8-lug wheels generally have the larger hub diameter and, as long as they are 6. 5" and not metric, will fit any 6. 5" bolt pattern ford, dodge, or chevy. The larger hub opening doesn't matter because chevy and dodge trucks are stud-centered; not hub centered, meaning the lug studs bear the weight, not the hubs.



confused yet? I spent several fruitless trips to the salvage yard trying to find a new steel spare wheel for my dodge after mine rusted out from hanging under the truck too many years. I mistakenly thought any of my several chevy steel spares would fit and i have the same tire size on a couple of them. Then I had my most recent blowout, came home and got one of those chevy wheels and found out differently when the hub was just a hair too small to go on the dodge.



Identifying a wheel with no hub cap is almost impossible at the junkyard, too. Chevy, Ford, & dodge all used wheels that look very similar, and none I found had any manufacturer or blue oval or bowtie or other markings on them. A total crap shoot if the junkyard failed to mark what brand of truck it came off when they removed it. I could not get my calipers inside the hub opening to see what size it was (the depth scale protrudes too far as you open the jaws far enough) and a tape measure simply isn't accurate enough to detect the tiny difference due to the curved lip of the hub hole on steel wheels. On many, the hub hole isn't even round, but multi-faceted. I ended up with another chevy wheel I did not need, but I did get a real good 285-75R-16 ProComp mud terrain tire for $30 that came with the wheel...



I'm still looking for a dodge wheel.