Junkyard stock steel wheels

I am a junkyard dog and want to do some DIY beadlocks.

I am wondering if there are any stock steel wheels off of any vehicle with the 5x4.5 pattern that have 3.5" to 4.5" of backspacing. I know that rangers, explorers, mustangs and such have the same bolt pattern but am unsure of the backspacing. ANY ideas???


Josh

Okay i had a wild hair up my nose and got to thinkin of other ideas.

are there any 15x8 steel rims with a 5 lug pattern and 4.5" backspacing?? i could possibly get adapters for cheap???

TJ wheels were 15x8 iirc... For the price though, why not just find a set of used cragars? By the time you got spacers/adapters and the wheels you'd have spent more anyway...

5spd_xj said:

TJ wheels were 15x8 iirc... For the price though, why not just find a set of used cragars? By the time you got spacers/adapters and the wheels you'd have spent more anyway...

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I edited my second post 5SPDxj. i need backspacing.

gotcha. well, even still... I sold my set of 4 cragars for $80 when I went to a 5 on 5.5 pattern, and i found a set of those for $75... good deals/prices are out there, just gotta look... But, to answer the initial question, I don't know of any stock wheels that fit those requirements.

newer(2000 and up)ranger steel wheels are 4.75 backspacing if i remember right, 15x7-5x4.5

older rangers are 4inch bs

Stock ranger wheels are 4.5 backspacing.

Curious..... Why 4.5" BS? That's just gonna put that big tire that much closer to your inner fender/unibody and the lower control arms when turning. I gotta assume that you're doing beadlocks for a fairly large tire right? (33" or larger)

IIRC, most common rockcrawler style aftermarket wheels are 3.5" BS when going 15x8, and sometimes less BS with the 15x10 - with the idea that the larger tire will need to move farther outward for steering clearance issues.... :dunno:

I had a set of rockcrawlers in a 15x8 that were actually a 4.5" BS (which is the stock XJ BS IIRC) with 31's mounted and the tires rubbed on the LCA's pretty badly at full turn.

Oh, and IIRC, all Wrangler wheels that were 15x8 were the aluminum version - I don't think they made a steel wheel for any Jeep in a 15x8.... :dunno:

Stock xj wheel BS is 5.25 not 4.5.