opinion on possible wheel choice?

[johnnybgood74]

i am thinking about running these rims after i polish them up. what do you think? trying to picture in my head what they will look like on my 69. they are the Ford deluxe rim back in 05. they are an 18" rim. they will be wrapped in 37" rubber soon. what do you think?

 

[Louie]

Looks like major league back space so they'd tuck way under?

 

[johnnybgood74]

ya they are way back spaced. i figured it might help when i put the 1 tons on so it wont stick way out there.

 

[73stallion]

aren't those metric bolt pattern? are your axles that new?

 

[Justafordguy]

They are metric but if you are using the superduty axles you should be good to go. I think the offset will be good to help with the overall width when you go to full widths axles.

 

[johnnybgood74]

ya they are metric. i was thinking the same about them helping with the overall width. it looks like it might help by a couple inches.

 

[Heus33]

What color is your bronco going to be Johnny? Any rim looks better when its wrapped i a big tire!

When I first saw that wheel it reminded me of a procomp wheel Ive seen painted in matte black.

 

[Justafordguy]

They look very similar to the ones on my 05 but mine are 17". I have always liked the look. I bet they would look good a a full width axled EB.

 

[Crawdad]

I bought some Motos (???) 18x9s for 35" Nitto Mud Graps last fall. I was told they would fit 5 on 5.5 bolt pattern. So I bought them. WELLLLLLLLLLL I didn't know about the backspace at the time. Those rims had like a 6.5" backspace!!!! I put them on the back axle and couldn't tighten down b/c they rubbed the shock!!!!!!! And they were so far inside the wheel well it looked..... well ...gay. The dealer was sorry and offered to buy me spacers but 3" spacers were not close and I really didn't feel comfortable with'em. So I made them give me a refund. I ended up with KM2s on flat black 17x9s with 3.5 backspace. To me they look perfect!

 

[johnnybgood74]

hey Tom, i am going to go with grabber blue. the pic that i posted seems to make the rim look flat. they really arent as flat as they look in the pic.

 

[Heus33]

Grabber blue is one of my favorite colors! I tried googling some pics of these wheels wrapped in 37s but I can't find anything.

It seems like a bronco should have a deeper wheel lip than these wheels - but they might look great - its kind of hard to picture them on a finished rig though.

 

[johnnybgood74]

im with you Tom! i cant tell how it would look with them. not really sure if i like them or not! lol im on the fence. i just wanted to keep the tire tucked in as far as possibe with the 1 tons.