RE: [ihc] Center-splitting rims

["Ed Sohm" <idaemes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Like the old Combat wheels on WWII jeeps and such?

Ed

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Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 3:03 PM
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Subject: [ihc] Center-splitting rims


>If they come apart in nearly the center of the rim, into two nearly
equal
>size pieces (with the center attached to one of the two pieces) they
are
>DANGEROUS GARBAGE !! Original IH or NOT !! If they have a split ring on
one
>side of the rim that comes off of the rest of the rim, they are split
rims,
>and OK.

Greg,

By "split nearly in the center" you mean, if mounted on the truck, the
wheels come apart roughly in the center of the tire tread?

Which would be different from something like a Hummer beadlock wheel.