moparmat2000
Well-Known Member
hi Y'all
what to do with an old steel wheel?? i must confess i do have a fondness for some non mopar related vehicles, my 1994 chevy pickup is one of those. i also love the kelsey hayes made steel 15x8 chevy truck rallyes. well the other day i was at my local recycle center dropping off tires , when i noticed one of these with a tire on it. its edge was pretty bent up but otherwise pretty ok where it needed to be.
i decided i needed a hose hanger in my back yard for my garden hose. this would be perfect. i rounded up 5 of those funny GM lug nuts with the threads on the outside for the plastic dummy lugs to hold on a center cap, scoured those up along with a center cap dummy lugs, and a trim ring at my local bone yard. so far today i welded the rim to a piece of 2" square tubing, welded on the lug nuts, primered, painted the wheel assembly, and installed the center cap and trim ring.
i still have to dig a hole, and concrete it in, as well as paint the tubing, and wrap my garden hose on it. when its installed hopefully tomorrow afternoon i will take and submit more pix.
hopefully this gets somebody elses creativity flowing. an old bent mopar rallye wheel would work for this just as well , and is better than throwing it away.
matt
what to do with an old steel wheel?? i must confess i do have a fondness for some non mopar related vehicles, my 1994 chevy pickup is one of those. i also love the kelsey hayes made steel 15x8 chevy truck rallyes. well the other day i was at my local recycle center dropping off tires , when i noticed one of these with a tire on it. its edge was pretty bent up but otherwise pretty ok where it needed to be.
i decided i needed a hose hanger in my back yard for my garden hose. this would be perfect. i rounded up 5 of those funny GM lug nuts with the threads on the outside for the plastic dummy lugs to hold on a center cap, scoured those up along with a center cap dummy lugs, and a trim ring at my local bone yard. so far today i welded the rim to a piece of 2" square tubing, welded on the lug nuts, primered, painted the wheel assembly, and installed the center cap and trim ring.
i still have to dig a hole, and concrete it in, as well as paint the tubing, and wrap my garden hose on it. when its installed hopefully tomorrow afternoon i will take and submit more pix.
hopefully this gets somebody elses creativity flowing. an old bent mopar rallye wheel would work for this just as well , and is better than throwing it away.
matt
