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Model T temporary wheel question

Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 1:16 am
by VanEpsFan1914
I see this with a lot of older cars--people put different wheels on them sometimes when they need to work on the car. I've seen them with trailer wheels, old donut spares, etc., stuck on there to help move the car around a little bit.

If someone had an old Ford chassis would they be able to stick a modern wheel on there to move it around, and if so, what kind of temporary substitute works? I was just wondering in case someone needed to roll an older car around whether there was, say, a donut spare or something that would work until a proper set of wheels could be found.

Sorry if that's a dumb question.
Thanks,

Charles

Re: Model T temporary wheel question

Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 4:02 am
by Allan
Not a dumb question at all. It would require a set of spare hubs, either from disassembled wood wheels or wire wheels, drilled to suit whatever wheels. I do know that 36 Chev wheels can be fitted to a T, having done so in my youth. I have a pair of wood wheel hubs fitted with 14" rims and tyres, just in case I can make a deal to rescue some T wheels from under a horse sulky or trailer.

Allan from down under.

Allan from down under.

Re: Model T temporary wheel question

Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:29 am
by VanEpsFan1914
Thank you Allan! Sounds like a very excellent reason why we really only see Model T's with regular wood or wire wheels on them.

Re: Model T temporary wheel question

Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:38 am
by Vic_alberta_Canada
We only did this once!

Re: Model T temporary wheel question

Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 12:13 pm
by Mark Gregush
Maybe someone will pop up the pictures, but I have seen photos of guys that cut disks out of plywood and mount to wood wheel hubs to move cars around. Of course, with the price of plywood, might be cheaper to have wheels re-spoked! LOL If I were doing that, I would go with thicker plywood and maybe a couple of layers thick, and could be smaller diameter, but maybe bigger then those shown above.

Re: Model T temporary wheel question

Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 1:16 pm
by Art M
In the early 1940s an adapter was available to mount a Plymouth wheel on a model t rear axle. My father's utility trailer, which was made from a 26 or 27 pickup truck, was fitted with 600-16 wheels. It worked well. I still have the axle from it. Last used in 1974 then allowed to rust away.
Art Mirtes