wheels- 1989 drw to srw (rear only)?

[pybyr]

This isn't diesel-specific, but it is for my diesel, and lots of you folks seem to know my series truck-

My truck is a 1989 F350 7.3 DRW- 13,000 original miles, and it previously lived in heated garages.

It came to me with new Nokian Vativa winter tires on the front, and nearly new Michelin truck M+S tires on the back.

I'm noticing that the rear can really skate around when I hit powdery snow on top of ice (I've always driven pickups, so know how they behave, but this is to an extreme degree). So I am thinking of putting snows- maybe studded snows- on the rear, but definitely can't afford 4, and won't be carrying heavy loads in winter.

Can people give me suggestions of what non-offset wheels (or from what year and model trucks) will fit my bolt pattern/ hubs & the DRW's flat-base nuts? I seem to recall that a 99 Super Duty that I once owned had the flat-base nuts also, but don't know if wheels from the SuperDuty era trucks have the same dimensions or would fit.

Thanks

 

[kas83]

Just get some stock steelies, and 16 acorn lug nuts to hold them on.

Trust me, just going to single tires in the rear makes a HUGE difference, I tried it on my truck with a couple I had laying around Thursday. But, I'm going to throw 1,000 lbs of sand/rock bags in the bed and run the duals this winter.

 

[jcarr]

Why not just put two studed tires on in place of your outboard tires. This way you keep the weight hauling ability and keep the proper look. Had my old truck singled out for about a week and it just looked goofy with the dually fenders and single tires under.

 

[suv7734]

With the dauls you have less weight on each tire so they slide around a lot. If the conditions got really bad when I had my dually I just took the inside tire off each side and ran the outer only. Seemed to work fine.

 

[RLDSL]

I've got some big ol nasty mudders on the back of my dually and with my bed tank loaded down that thing handles great on snow, it only gets loose on wet glare ice and you really need studs or friction tires for that stuff, preferably studs.. If you throw some Nokian Hakkas on the back of that thing, it'll track like a mountain goat

 

[pybyr]

Why not just put two studed tires on in place of your outboard tires. This way you keep the weight hauling ability and keep the proper look. Had my old truck singled out for about a week and it just looked goofy with the dually fenders and single tires under.

This truck has a Reading toolbox body on the back, so I don't think that SRW wheels would look as unusual as they might on a pickup-bed dually with its wider fenders.

 

[kas83]

This truck has a Reading toolbox body on the back, so I don't think that SRW wheels would look as unusual as they might on a pickup-bed dually with its wider fenders.

Even if it does look goofy, the added driveability is worth it IMO. Only reason I'm sticking with the duals is I'm trying to get work hauling gooseneck for a guy I know with a small farm, and don't have time to be switching back and forth when I need to be hauling.