I bought new wheels, tires, lugnuts, and chrome center caps. Cost me more than I paid for the whole truck. It drives like a Cadillac now, and old Cadillac, but a Cadillac none the less. Tires are Dick Cepek Mud Country 35x12.5x15 on Wheel Vintiques 12 series 10x15 wheels. I painted the wheels yesterday, and hand mounted the tires today. I cut the centers out of two hubcap at work on the Lathe to clear the hubs. The bed is full of scrap metal, but the truck sits higher in the back than this. I might have to do the bodywork and paint it this spring. But then I'd have to wash it and worry about it....

 

Here's what was on it, they never ran true and the truck shook bad enough to unlatch the tailgate. The second picture is what it looked like when I bought it for $600.00 5 years ago.

 

Sharp. Cepek's are great tires. Looks real nice. Love me some 1st Gen.

 

The vaned mags in pic one are super cool. I hope you still have them.

 

I do, but I think I'll sell them. They never ran true. The lugnuts were smaller than the holes in the wheels, so they wouldn't center. I made sleeves at work to go over the lugnuts to make them fit the holes in the wheels. That helped, but they were never right. When I had the tires mounted, the tire guy said one needed a lot of weight. He thought it might be bent, but we couldn't see it. I never drove the truck out of town because of that. Now I can. I bought those used at a swapmeet.
I should mention I bought everything from Summit Racing and had everything in 3 to 4 days. I'm very happy with the quality of everything I bought. My old tires made a lot of noise, and I'm not sure these do. I kind of wanted the noise, a neighbors dog would chase me down the road, so I'd slow down and he'd run beside me. He had fun and so did I. We'll see how he likes these.

 

I really like those wheels! Good vintage look on the truck. Now you have to do that body work and paint. Your truck currently looks like a hobo with a pair of really nice shoes on.
I'm not knocking it, just sucks when you make one thing nice on our trucks it highlights how bad other parts are.

 

Anyone with a first-gen is a classy gentleman of good taste in my book. Those are some sweet wheels. Steelies are the best on these.

 

Looks good!!!

 

I've been wondering for a while what blank steelies with chrome hubcaps would look like, and my 2 cents... honestly, I don't like it. Those rims are very clean, shiny, minimalist in their shapes and contours. They look out of place on a body that's not clean or shiny, and has a fair amount of curves and details in it; they'd look more appropriate on a third-gen, oddly enough. Or maybe with a few decades' worth of rust and mud, they'd look right at home?

What wheels are those, anyway? They're not OEM steelies (I just bought a set of those in black).

Do the tires rub?

Yer missin' a hub bolt!

 

That Hub bolts been missing ever since I bought it. I see it and say to myself "I gotta get a bolt" then I forget about it. Anybody have one for sale?

 

You can search the usual off-road places, like lowrange. A dealer may have one. You might be able to pull another and go to a well-stocked hardware store or specialty fastner retailer and get a suitable replacement.

 

I was going to go to the Hardware store and get a replacement, but I'd like the heads to match. I thought about replacing all of them so they would match.
Oh, and Moroza the tires don't rub, but the front wheels hit the tie rods without spacers. I'm waiting on spacer now. I have 2 washers on each stud right now, so I haven't driven it except up the road and back, maybe a mile. The spacers hopefully will be here by the end of this week. The wheels I took off did the same thing. I ran the washers for 4 four years with those wheels.