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Rim Identification
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RandyM
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- First Name: Randy
- Last Name: Morgan
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1923 Touring
- Location: Daytona Beach
Rim Identification
I have a ‘23 Touring, I was replacing the tires and I have this rim as a spare. It is not correct for this car and was I wondering if someone knows what it goes to?
Does anyone need this? I am going to order the one I need.
Does anyone need this? I am going to order the one I need.
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CudaMan
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- First Name: Mark
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- Location: Hillsboro, MO
- Board Member Since: 2013
Re: Rim Identification
It looks to me like a Kelsey 88 rim. It uses a special felloe with four notches and separate lugs.
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Mark Strange
Hillsboro, MO
1924 Cut-off Touring (now a pickup)
Hillsboro, MO
1924 Cut-off Touring (now a pickup)
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RandyM
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Re: Rim Identification
Thanks for the info Mark. What vehicle would it fit?
Now I just need to find someone who could use it.
Now I just need to find someone who could use it.
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CudaMan
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Re: Rim Identification
The last picture in my post lists applications of Model T Ford, Gray, and Maxwell. Here are a few pics of a set of Model T Kelsey wheels that I built up a few years ago, then sold to another member in Texas.
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Mark Strange
Hillsboro, MO
1924 Cut-off Touring (now a pickup)
Hillsboro, MO
1924 Cut-off Touring (now a pickup)
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RandyM
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Re: Rim Identification
WOW. Only $1.50 for rims back then. $399.00 now.
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Henry K. Lee
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Re: Rim Identification
Thank You Mark for the education!
All the Best,
Hank
All the Best,
Hank
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TRDxB2
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Re: Rim Identification
I have two Kelsey 88 rims and correct matching fellows available for purchase. One with wood spokes (replace?) and hubs for both. Photo's to follow
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger
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Allan
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Re: Rim Identification
Mark, were the lugs and loose lugs on your re-built wheels new items from the vendors? Well done for them to make them available, though the price is a little daunting.
They appear to be totally machined, and thus are perfect, unlike the originals you show in the photo earlier in your post. I was fortunate to buy a bag of NOS original flanged nuts at Chickasha in 2010. The seller wondered why I wanted them. The original nuts and lugs are stamped out, and thus are quite crude in appearance.
Allan from down under.
They appear to be totally machined, and thus are perfect, unlike the originals you show in the photo earlier in your post. I was fortunate to buy a bag of NOS original flanged nuts at Chickasha in 2010. The seller wondered why I wanted them. The original nuts and lugs are stamped out, and thus are quite crude in appearance.
Allan from down under.
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CudaMan
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Re: Rim Identification
Yes, I got all of the fasteners on those wheels new from Lang's.
Mark Strange
Hillsboro, MO
1924 Cut-off Touring (now a pickup)
Hillsboro, MO
1924 Cut-off Touring (now a pickup)
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Altair
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Re: Rim Identification
In the day there was about four or five wheel manufactures, I have over a dozen spare wheels and it is difficult to find two that match exactly, however the all fit my T.
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RajoRacer
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Re: Rim Identification
Yes, there was David and they were all built to fit the Model T BUT the challenge is marrying the correct rim to the wheel for which it was intended.