Tire / Rims update
I was fortunate to find someone who dismounted my old tires from the rims. Aside from the valve-stem area the wheels are salvageable except for one of the front wheels. The rust around the stem hole is bad enough that it needs repair.
Instead of repairing the one I think I will buy two new front wheels, scrap the bad one, and keep the "one" decent one as a spare.
Tires are not a problem. I found them to be available at the local PepBoys tire center.
My questions:
Where to order, buy, new wheels to fit my Ford 1710 2wd? 15 x 5.00
I am searching the internet etc but I am open to any suggestions from the forum.
Anybody have a cure for my illness? Any hope of getting them from the TSC or other tractor parts dealer?
Any such luck as finding a currently manufactured trailer rim that can be substituted in some way?
It seems like cutting out the center of the old rim and welding it to something else would be too labor intensive.
With the millions of vehicles, trailers, and other wheeled equipment there has got to be something with the same lug pattern. I think I will make a paper template to measure everything I see with 6 lugs.
data on 1710 wheel mounting measurements:
front: 3" center hole; 2-1/2" between lug-to-lug (center point)
rear: 4-1/2" center hole; 3-1/2" between lug-to-lug (center point)
Thanks,
P.S.:
I am going to the New Holland site to check their prices now. Maybe it's just me but I have trouble with finding the parts (such as the hydraulic piston seal) in their diagrams. Maybe it isn't there but I keep looking.