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What you really need is this tool: http://www.rematiptop.com/parts.php?sid=46
Or you can make your own (for a fraction of that cost) with a strip of sheet-metal and some foam rubber, or use a mil. sleeping foam pad - mat.
Trust me; it works effortless and always!
No pics/drawings and I never did it myself - because I never had to. But this is really a no-brainer job: cut one exactly in half. Then mark a second one in the center, add 1" and cut along that line. Take the wider section and weld it back to one of your halves. Doesn't have to be a continuous...
Well, get Wes to send you 8 of his FMTV beadlocks (he has them very cheap!), then make your own - exactly one inch wider than stock (by using two of them, cut and welded back together, along the center line.)
That's how I would do it, and it only takes an angle grinder with cutting disc and a...
Me...? Mounted dozens of 395's on FMTV and HEMTT wheels, and quite a few 16.00's, on HET wheels. Also dozens of 37" HMMWV tires...
I sure had all kind of issues but never a leaking O-ring seal. Never installed a NEW O-ring, either. (I simply can't buy new ones and have them here, next day...:))