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AKA Firestone RH-5. I'm looking for one, or more accurately, a piece of one, since they're illegal to run these days. Older Chevy and GMC big truck 2 speed rear axles ran a version of that wheel with a small diameter 10 lug bolt pattern, smaller than the bolt circle conventional Budd 10 lug wheels use on modern 18 wheelers. I believe some modern motorhomes with 19.5" tubeless tires run the same 10 lug bolt circle. I'm looking for one of those wheels to use as drilling template to adapt a set of Budd 24.5" wheels to the small diameter bolt pattern. All I really need is a center section of the wheel with the bolt circle intact, torched out of a junk wheel to minimize the shipping weight.

Anybody got one of those wheels decorating their scrap iron pile? It would most likely be a 20" tube type wheel for a heavy duty Chevy or GMC 2 or 3 ton from the early to mid 1950's.
Thanks!

I know what you are looking for as I have a set of the 20's on my 55 1.5 ton. Though it may be cheap to have one cut out the center of a wheel, Id also recommend maybe contacting someone on ebay? to cut what you need from a new piece of steel. I had a large (16"?) stainless disc cut by someone on ebay to match the hub of a 2004 gmc envoy. It was used in a custom electric chopper build. With having one custom cut, you can identify the center bore size, the 10 on 7.25 bolt pattern and potentially add the OD of the disc maybe? in order to help center it etc on the wheel you want to convert. Or some other means of making it centered. Either way, I do know that I have axles and wheels from a 94' chevy C3500HD (HD being the key part) that has the same 10 x 7.25 bolt pattern but i believe the center bore is diff. maybe another route to look at. good luck and happy hunting.