Re: Wheel suggestions for 84 Ram?
[Re: roe]
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10/21/14 04:12 PM
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I would go for the cop car wheels with the vented poverty caps for 2 reasons (1) your '84 truck has the 5 on 4.5" bolt circle and the later wheels would require later rotors in front and later replacement axle shafts and drums in back to go with the 5 on 5.5" pattern (2) painted wheels are so easy to maintain and subtle. I had a set on my '74 D100 (traded that to my oldest son and he lost it in a divorce) I went the other way with my '86 Ramcharger (early rotors and custom axles) to get the CenterLine Warriors to fit. 
1986 Dodge Ramcharger 440 2wd, Bracket Racer Under Construction
1998 Ram 2500 QuadCab, new daily driver.
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Re: Wheel suggestions for 84 Ram?
[Re: roe]
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10/25/14 06:52 PM
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Sorry I didn't respond sooner Roe, been a busy week. I had to have the hubs machined a little ($20) and I did use spacers. These wheels have a weird offset that when you put them on the 1st Gens the wheels are too far into the wheel wells. I will be lowering this truck a little by using the van lower control arms conversion and flipping the rear leaf spring mounts and I plan on putting some 16" Torque Thrusts on it. I have a buddy with the late model Ram 20" wheels that they use on the Hemis (his is a 360) and I think if you could get those to fit they would look pretty good on a 4x4. I think those are some of the best looking factory wheels ever produced. I don't know if you know it but a lot of Ford wheels fit these too and I have seen some pretty good looking rigs with the Ford wheels that look like Centerlines. 
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Re: Wheel suggestions for 84 Ram?
[Re: roe]
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10/25/14 11:35 PM
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20" steelies. Swiped this pic from here, not sure who's truck but it looks great.IMO
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Re: Wheel suggestions for 84 Ram?
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10/31/14 03:53 PM
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Or these with the same center cap as above.
I know this one is dirty but they do clean up nice.
I have mechanical Aptitude.
I can screw up anything.
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Re: Wheel suggestions for 84 Ram?
[Re: roe]
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11/03/14 03:01 PM
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Do you have a pic of the rims you're talking about? And how thick was your spacer and did you have to use longer studs?
Here is a couple pictures Roe, hopefully you can see what I am talking about but its hard to get things across in a 2 dimensional photo. The centers of the wheels had to be machined about 1/16th of an inch or so and you can see it in the first picture though the semi-roughness gets covered by the center cap.
I did put slightly longer studs on it because I had a couple broken studs and replaced them all anyway and I think I would go that route regardless, the origional studs were just a tad too short for my liking though you could get the lug nuts threaded on them.
I dont know if you can see it in the pictures but the spacers look to me to be about an inch but I just don't remember. One of my neighbors runs a tire shop out of his shop and he measured it all out for me and ordered them but that was about 5 years ago.
To me the wheels and tires look way to big and I don't like them not to mention the speedo needs to be recalibrated. I want to eventually go to 15" Torque Thrusts in a classic spoked pattern like the old Cragar SS.
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It has cop car wheels on it now.
Of course, this is an 88. Both Dodge and Ford used similar wagon wheels with rings and centers, and Ford will fit the Dodge. Junk yards should have a gazillion of these to choose from (mostly off of Fords). 
