Where can I buy wheel centers to match the rockwell bolt pattern ?:flipoff2:

uh, well you can buy the steel...

and seriously, if you are asking THIS rockwell question, it leads me to believe that you are planning on putting them under a truck. well if you dont know that you have to make your own wheel centers or buy a whole custom wheel, i think that you should reconsider your use of rockwells, because this is the least of your problems.

PM brutus, he can get em. I think the ones he can get are like 17-18" diameter, for use on a 20" wheel. If you want to run 15" wheels you will have to get em turned down. Or you could go to any old deisel truck yard. The 6 on 8.75 lug pattern was used quite commonly. Just buy a set of old wheels, and torch the centers out...

buy some high strength steel and locate a machine shop that does water-jet cutting. that way you can make your own design and bolt pattern. cut the centers out of the hummer wheels and have a welder weld in the centers. i know a local shop that can do this.

Your link didn't work try this one.

http://www.rockequipment.com/

mrt will do them like 60 bucks more than standard wheel

What I did for mine was go to the junkyard and pick up a set of 15x10 wagon wheels @ $10.00 each. Then I took them to a local machine shop and they torched out the centers and turned new centers on a lathe out of 7/16" plate (the military wheels are 1/2" thick and that is what I asked for, but thay didn't have enough 1/2"plate, so I figured 7/16" is still pretty darn thick). They charged me $90.00 a wheel to turn the center sections and weld them in, so basicly I got a set of 15x10 inch wheels with the rockwell pattern for $400.00. Another option is to take 4 20" wheels (like the stock military wheels) and torch the centers out and have them turned down (less labor, but you have to track down 4 more wheels).

One other thing, when I bought my axles I got them from White Owl parts in Kinston, NC www.whiteowl.com and they let me walk around there yard while a forklift got freed up to load my axle. I don't know what they came off of but I saw several 16" wheels with the rockwell bolt pattern on them. I could only find 3, but the military must use them for something.

JYS

I took my old 15 inch beadlocked wheels, ground the 5 weld beads on the inside of the wheel centers that hold them to the wheel and knocked the old centers out. I then had a guy plasma cut me some centers that had an outside diameter of 14.25 inches and an inside diameter of 6.50 inches so the center would slide over the hub. I then had the holes drilled 1/16 over 3/4 inch diameter in a 6 on 8 3/4 bolt pattern. Came out slick. If you want I think I can email you the pattern I did on autocad and you can just give it to a shop and they can do it for ya. I would recommend laser cutting as it is hella smooth and clean and exactly precise. Our only laser cutting place close by closed down so I had to have them plasma cut and drilled. Also you might want to check the outside diameter that the centers have to be as it could vary from wheel to wheel, but I would doubt it. I just took a piece of string and held it tightly on the insides of the wheel to see what the diameter was and then measured it with a measuring tape. Get it a bit longer and you can always grind down to make the center fit deeper into the wheel. I used half inch thick steel as well. Hope that helps. Don't worry about installing the rockwells, just ask questions as you go and I'm sure people would be willing to share what knowledge they have, I know I will.