Does anyone know what the story is with these steel big rigs?? They look like 22" steel wheels, but how did they cut them down?? Can you buy a straight 22" steel wheel somewhere?

I believe that those are 22.5 steels with 22 inch tires stretched over them. Definately not recommended!

I hadn't even thought about that. I guess that would be the obvious, yet unsafe, way. I just thought maybe there was some body out there stamping out steel 22's or something. Someone needs to. they'd make a nice chunk of change I bet. A set of steel 22's would be great for building and mocking up without having to worry about screwing up your billet's. Hell it would even be great for the people who want to run 22's but don't have 4g's laying around.

I would kill for a set of steel 22's. I love the look of the steelies.

Without question, those are 22" tires stretched over 22.5" wheels, the guy that owned that truck was/is on here and it was discussed many times. Very unsafe...but fine for the "who cares" crowd right?

Richard

Those boys at t&n wheel can cut you some outa aluminum then you could powder coat them and Walla same look on a safe wheel

Couldn't Tn Wheel cut a set down to 22?
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I like the front clip on that blue truck, any info on how big a pita it was to do?
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Steel rim doesn't have the excess material necessary to be milled down. It's been asked a bunch, Trevor probably does a face palm every time it gets mentioned.

I think he was in talks with some people about producing brand new steel 22/24's but it's hard to get manufacturers interested in small runs of things like that.

Richard

Surely a steel 24.5 could be cut to 22? Or am I missing something here?
And wtf is the deal with the small font all of a sudden?

Steel wheels are to thin to be milled down.

Yeah, you need to look a lot closer at how a wheel is designed, there's no way you're going to cut a 24.5 down to 22, it's no way near that simple. It's not like the wheel is one big solid piece, think about it, to cut a 24.5 down to 22 the hoop of the wheel would have to be several inches thick to start with.

The reason an aluminum semi wheel is able to be milled down to a non-heavy truck size is because they're so damn thick for strength that enough material can safely be removed to let a passenger type tire fit and still be strong enough to be used in a 1 ton dually application. The steel wheels aren't as thick in the areas that would be milled down.

Richard

Makes sense, I wasn't looking at it in the right way. Thanks for educating me.

ive never looked at a steel wheel, but 24.5 would need .125 cut off one side of the wheel diameter to make .5 on the total outside diameter.

im sure there has to be .125 on the outside of a steel wheel, which could be trimmed.

there must be something else to be the reason.

maybe trevor or the like can clue us in or link us to the discussion someone already had..?

there actually needs to be 0.250 cut off all the way around to make it 0.500 inches shorter...im sure if there was enough material to mill them down they would be readily available

The outer diameter of any aluminum semi wheel ( Alcoa, Accuride ) is not what's altered when milling / cutting to fit a passenger vehicle tire. Now, without revealing secrets..... The area that is changed, the steel wheel just doesn't have the material. Cannot be done. Hope this helps, Darrell