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I have a question about dually wheels on the 47 FFPW flat bed I just got. I hardley ever see a picture of a truck with dually wheels and wondered how rare they are. I have been told that the axle was the same on all the trucks and to make a dually the longer back set wheels were used which is the case on mine. I am going to use them but remake the flat bed and the truck has a 318 Dodge V8 in it with a propane conversion from Hall-Scott after they were bought out by Hercules. I will turn it back to gas and change the belly propane tanks to belly gas tanks. Keith
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The DRWs for PWs having the 5 lug x 6 7/8" pattern are pretty rare. There were two widths. There was a 16" x 5.5" (Budd #44380) that was spec'd for a 7.50" tire, and a 16" x 6.5" (Budd #66730) that was spec'd for the standard 9" PW tires. The offset of the 5.5" was 4 3/4", while the 6.5" had 5 7/8".
I found a set of the narrow variety on a trailer a couple years ago in a yard near Salt Lake City, and just last week had a guy email me asking about a set he just found. I'm still waiting to hear from him with part numbers, width measurement, etc. The numbers I cited should be stamped into the concave side rim lip of each wheel, generally opposite the valve stem. As best I can tell Budd was the only company to make them. K-H, and MW make no mention of them in their catalogs.
I also had a WWII era IHC guy ask me about a set a few years ago. I hadn't stopped to think about it, but the PW bolt pattern was used on them too. Stu -
Dually wheels on a 1947 FFPW
I have not brought the truck home yet but did notice that the offset on the wheels on the back are bigger than the front. It is still sitting in the yard where I bought it. Also there are two spares on the flat bed and one has more of an offset than the other. The wheel with the bigger offset is marked with 47 the same year as the truck. I can not make out the number on the shorter offset wheel . I am going back and forth on leaving it a dually and may just shorten the width of the bed and only use one wheel instead of the dually set up. It also has a gin pole set up and I am going to sell that and the propane system and tanks or trade them for parts I need. KeithComment
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Need to see some pics when you get it home! :)Comment
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Dually wheels on a 1947 FFPW
If you send me an email address I will send you some pictures as I have not figured out how to load them here yet. KeithComment
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Dually wheels on a 1947 FFPW
Here are a couple of pictures of the 47 from the original buyers website.
[img]http://www.strever.com/jag/shop/Dodge/Dsc00330.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.strever.com/jag/shop/Dodge/Dsc00329.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.strever.com/jag/shop/Dodge/IMG_0003.JPG[/img]
[img]http://www.strever.com/jag/shop/Dodge/Dsc00336.jpg[/img]Comment
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Looking for an update on these dually rims? Were you ever able to get some numbers off the rims? Was the outer rim the dually rim and the inner rim a stock rim? What kind of space was there between the tires?
Thanks,
ClarkComment
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Dual rear wheels
Hey guys I know this is an old post but if anybody is interested I have a buddy who is very into the M37 and he has developed/built a dual rear wheel setup for his M37, its the full deal with modified rear fenders and it look really nice, If anybody is interested let me know and I will get some info on the kit from him. Since its built for the M37 I wonder just how much work it would be to make mods to the kit to work on a standard Power Wagon?
Let me know if there is enough interest to post something on it?
Karl
Originally posted by CSCameron View PostComment
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Would love to see some pics of his setup.
Got mine setup, but with a flatbed...
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I'd like to see how it looks..Comment
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I'm guessing it will look something like this???
Clark
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Dual rear wheels
Hey guys I talked to my buddy who is making the kits to put rear duals on the Dodges, for right now he is concentrating only on the M37 kits, looks like the Power Wagon kits are a bit down the road!
KarlComment
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What's different? I thought other than axle width the they are basically identical as far as wheel hardware. M37s would have been more likely to have bead-lock wheels but that shouldn't affect much.
He could sell it without the fenders, plenty of people would still be interested.Comment
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With regard to the duals themselves, nothing is different. Perhaps the sheet metal is slightly different?Originally posted by Desoto61 View Post
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