Flipping the dish

[Bigo1966]

So there I was looking at my Deuce Rims and noticed on quite a few, the dish is rivited in and welded every so often. My thought was would it be possible to cut/drill out all the riviets, flip the dish and bolt it back in with however many Grade 8 nuts and bolts it takes and run singles in the rear?

My other thought on split rings...Lay a few beads here and there to ensure that ring is not going to fly off while im playing on the trails?

Thanks

Orion

 

[rizzo]

http://www.steelsoldiers.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=7035

 

[liljohn]

I can't imagine welding on the split rings is a good idea at all, nor do I think it's necessary. Not to mention complicating matters greatly if you do get a flat.

 

[devilman96]

Welds would crack...

Second thought... you would not be able to get the tire on or off the rim ether... No drop in the centers....

 

[ASTFU]

flipping the dish ,doing it now

I just started to flip the dish around on one wheel first .I cut all the rivits and drifted them out and cut the 3 1 inch welds. Pounded out the centers put them back in the oposite way and started to weld back in (of course ran out of wire) will continue tommorow. They look good with 1400s on them.

 

[tm america]

i like the way they look flipped but looks like they stick out to far on the front could you have stuck the center in farther i wouldnt weld the rings on the weld wont hold up and it could make the ring break and look out when that happens . the tire holds the ring on no worry about them coming off as long as they have air in em

 

[BFR]

just out of curiosity what do they look like from the other side?

 

[ASTFU]

I am not going to weld the rings on. The dish cant go in any further the rim steps out about 1/4 inch I will get more pics tommorow.

 

[ASTFU]

more pics

here are some pics of the back side

 

[Jakob]

Can you get a picture with the wheel/tire combo from the front of the truck. I wonder how much of the tire sticks out past the fender.

Also, did you widen the wheels at all? Or is it just flipped centers?

 

[avengeusa]

Can you get a picture with the wheel/tire combo from the front of the truck. I wonder how much of the tire sticks out past the fender.

Also, did you widen the wheels at all? Or is it just flipped centers?

I was gonna ask the same thing, widened?

 

[ASTFU]

I did not widen the rims, I am doing this one first just to check everything out if it works then I am going to 5 ang save myself a lot of money. I will post pics of the tire mounted on front this afternoon.

 

[rivired]

ya id like to know..most importantly..once u get em done if there true and no balance issues once u get a road test done