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Hank writes, “I bought a jeep five or so years ago and I am finally getting around to get her running. I was just wondering if anybody out in the jeep world has ever seen this set up before. I believe the rear is a Dana 44, but it has about 4″ extensions on it to make room for the duel wheels. I am looking for another set of rims. They are 16″ split rim with five holes. I am thinking they came off of a FC but am not sure.”
Hank,
Try a wheel from an Isuzu NPR. I think the older models are 5 lug and look pretty close to what you have there.
Good Luck
It looks like an adapter but not for duals. The rim looks like Bubba as spent some time with it.
Appears to me to be the old Studebaker 8.071″ 5 bolt used on the M715 5/4 ton Kaiser and many others including some power wagons. It let you run 9:00-16’s as singles, or use the M715 Duals on the same axle that came in the rear of the 4 speed FC’s
I second Steve’s comment. These are made to adapt the 5×5.5 bolt pattern on the hub to the large 5x? pattern…. they dont look like they’d clear an inner dual wheel due to the offset.
Maybe some D44’s out of a FSJ would have the width to clear a DRW setup?
The rearend is probably a Dana 70 judging the helper springs and the duallie setup(That’s right… i said Dana 70!!!). Jeep made Universal CJ5’s that had heavy utility devices attached or within the tub. The frame probably has a 1/2 inch plate running down both sides of the frame if it is.
This is not a Dana 70. There is an extention on this 44 the makes it longer. I measure from flange to flange and it is the same on my 68 cj5. You can see were the backing plate would bolt up there is an extention on the axle that holds the backing plate on. The wheel fit with the wheel in-wards with room to spare.
The rim shown looks to be from a Dodge M-37 which is the same as the Dodge flat fender Power Wagons of the 40’s thru the 60’s. Interesting adapter —should make quite a Jeep.
BTW- If the Dodge rims do fit they “ARE NOT” conventional ‘split rims’ and a tire shop can destroy them if they treat them as such. They were designed to be ‘field disassembled’ in war zones where proper tools weren’t always available. My tire shop beat the hell out of two of mine before I could stop them. They can be simply taken apart when deflated and reassembled when fixed. They are a bit odd ,but probably NOT as dangerous as actual ‘split rim’ wheels can be.