Truck wheels

[ABC Auto Industry]

I have questions about truck wheel styles. I know that the 10-hole (& also 5-hole) aluminum wheels are by Alcoa & that the 2- & 5-hole painted wheels are by Budd, but I'm not sure about the 5- & 6- spoke steel wheels. I think the 5-spoke wheels are by Rockwell, but there are different styles of 5- & 6-spoke wheels, so I'm not sure.

Also, for some reason, the 5- & 6-spoke wheels are attached to the axle & use a tire with a hollow rim on it.

If anyone can help me out with this, I'd be grateful.

[Jason]

If i remember correctly "Dayton" and multiple other companies make quite a few styles of the spoke rim, old guys around the shop refered to them as "Daytons". Those 5-6 spoked wheels are mounted to the hub via bolts(the nuts between the spokes) and the outer tire/rim assy are held in position by "wedges" they are pretty much self descriptive, one wedge per spoke that is held in place by a nut. This doesnt matter but they make great projectiles when you try to improperly remove them. Its been about 4 years since ive played with any heavy truck wheels so

if im not describing this correctly please let me know!

[rottin1]

Not to mention if you didn't get all the wedges and nuts mounted on even, the outside rim would wobble. Also if they weren't on tight, the outside rim would spin and sheer off the valve stem. They only thing I ever liked about them was how they looked on the old trucks when some of the guys would paint them up nice. Daytons look nice when the spokes where paint the same color as the frame and the outside rim was painted the same as the cab colors.

[crashalot2]

Not to mention if you didn't get all the wedges and nuts mounted on even, the outside rim would wobble. Also if they weren't on tight, the outside rim would spin and sheer off the valve stem. They only thing I ever liked about them was how they looked on the old trucks when some of the guys would paint them up nice. Daytons look nice when the spokes where paint the same color as the frame and the outside rim was painted the same as the cab colors.

I have seen a lot of trucks with Daytons on the back and Bubbs on frount ,I always thout that was because getting the wedges even on the frount took more time then mounting the budd wheel. I have mounted Daytons on a Mack B61 that a friend has and the rear is not very hard to get right but the frount takes time to get even because any wobble in frount wheels can be a problem.

[seboam]

As far as I know the difference between 5 spoke and 6 spoke is if the truck is a heavy spec or not.