Wanted: Lend Lease Chev rim and tyres in AUS

[Private_collector]

Originally Posted by motto

This reminds me of Sigfried who was the head of KAOS in the Get Smart series. He wore what he referred to as a suicide ring. If he took it off his wife would kill him.

I like that, very much.

[motto (RIP)]

Hi Lionel

I have difficult posting photos but there are some good ones of wheels and lock rings on the G503 forum.

If you can bring up the G503 board index, scroll down to "Other MV's US"

Click on "Trucks 1/2 Ton Thru 2 Ton"

Click on "Progress on G-506 Wheels and Tires" Page 2

Scroll down to wheel and lock ring photos.

These photos give a good view of the wheel with its groove and the full circle lock ring.

Look closely at the lock rings, (you may be able to enlarge the pictures), and you will see a narrow land or ledge around the inner circumference. As you follow this ledge away from the notch for the pinch bar removal tool you will see that the ledge narrows to nothing then reappears again. These relieved areas are what make it possible to install and remove the rings.

The wheels pictured are for the 1-1/2 ton Chev 4x4 "Yanky Joe" and are the same as GMC and Stude 6x6's. The L/L Chev has a different stud pattern but the lock ring works the same.

David

[Chevrolet 41]

Hi All,

Thanks for picking up that thread. Bob, thanks for the offer and may consider organising transport. Thankfully since posting last, I came across 2 tyres on Gumtree in WA and they are being carried across the country as I write.

I also found a great photo of a 6th Division truck convoy in North Africa showing one of the dual wheels removed and thought, hey, save the bother and do what they did during the war for highway use

[Tony Smith]

Hi,Chris. While I don't doubt that there were many innovative methods to conserve scarce rubber resources, you'll find those trucks are early 30cwt Chevs that only had the single rears, albeit on offset "dual" type wheels.

If David Hayward were still here with us, he could direct us to his thread with plenty of pics of these trucks. Unfortunately, the search function requires words/terms with a minimum of 5 characters, so "Chev", "30 Cwt", or "1940", etc do not help! I can't find it.

[motto (RIP)]

For Lionel or anybody else that wants to know a bit about the lock ring as used on L/L Chev, Yankee Joe, GMC and Stude 6x6 etc the G503 thread referred to in my previous post actually has a good explanation on page 1 that I had overlooked.

David

[Lionelgee]

Originally Posted by motto

Hi Lionel

I have difficult posting photos but there are some good ones of wheels and lock rings on the G503 forum.

If you can bring up the G503 board index, scroll down to "Other MV's US"

Click on "Trucks 1/2 Ton Thru 2 Ton"

Click on "Progress on G-506 Wheels and Tires" Page 2

Scroll down to wheel and lock ring photos.

These photos give a good view of the wheel with its groove and the full circle lock ring.

Look closely at the lock rings, (you may be able to enlarge the pictures), and you will see a narrow land or ledge around the inner circumference. As you follow this ledge away from the notch for the pinch bar removal tool you will see that the ledge narrows to nothing then reappears again. These relieved areas are what make it possible to install and remove the rings.

The wheels pictured are for the 1-1/2 ton Chev 4x4 "Yanky Joe" and are the same as GMC and Stude 6x6's. The L/L Chev has a different stud pattern but the lock ring works the same.

David

G'day David,

Thank you very much for the link about the tyres.

Damn that is another Military Vehicle forum to look at and the feature vehicle in the thread is a really nice looking rig too!

I will take some photographs of my rims and post them up.

Kind Regards
Lionel