Riverrat

Im based out in Bozeman Montana I'm mainly just looking for a good set of rims primarily wire wheels as you have there, id be willing to pay shipping herrickripley2@gmail.com is my email so we can talk further

Hey kings just now seeing this message about your wire wheel rims, haven't been on here in a while as I've put the Oakland on the back burner for a minute, I've cleaned up all the parts and jacked it up and am trying to deal with these wheels and tires and find more parts, if your still have them id be interested in taking them off yours hands i could definitely use them and put them to work again. Jake

Howdy yall, Riverrat here seeking some more guidance on the old 1930 Oakland this time pertaining to wheel assembly removal and wheel knowledge, after slowing moving it closer to the shop, tarping it better and having the right rear rim separate completely from the spokes during the very slow tow and pulling process I have blocked it up off the ground and am trying to figure out these wheels as I have never dealt with spline drive or center lock nut wheels only info I've found is on the bolt clamps that tie the inner and outer rings together have "Jaxon" cast on them, after taking the hub caps off I tried for the left front first, took the cotter pin out and only to get a nut that gets tighter and its threaded off, so I moved to the left rear taking a way to small key in the key slot out where it seems that the nut is bigger than the fronts and seems that it isn't threading to anything and spins in place indicating that there may be no threads under it at al anymore and what almost looks like in a hast to keep the wheel on the shaft that the nut threads to someone in the past hammered and mushroomed the end of shaft although i could be wrong, the right rear was caked in grease and must have aided in saving the nuts life as it came off in a breeze but the wheel still wont budge, a fellow on face book claimed there's a washer and key behind the nut but I'm not seeing that on any of these and also claimed that the correct tires are 5.50 x 19 and the service manual and original care manual calls for 28 x 5.50, the right font I haven't touched due to all of this, any help on this would be appreciated as well as any knowledge on where i could get new rims tires and such, im sure that at least 3 of these can be saved with the left front being the only one to have bad rust rot that could possibly be fixed on the outer and inner ring, rebuilding and remaking spokes isn't out of the equation as my dad has 35+ year wood working experience. Thanks again Riverrat.

This old Oakland was handed down to my a Dad after my grandpa had passed in which he had bought it at an auction back in the sixties with and extra block and spare parts, back then it needed engine work of some sort the story goes, since I was a kid the car had sat out in the yard forever with the engine parts in the cabin exposed the weather due to the cloth top having gone away long ago, over the past few years in my early 20s I've thought of ways to bring it back to life I know it would be a heck lot of work to do that but I'm patient and every now an then ill grab a part and dunk in evapo rust over night to good affect in gets the rust off, some parts have minor pitting to them from the years of fast scale rust, but my concern is aside from how to go about the major structural work to be done to the wood on the body ect, is the engine block/parts and where to even attempt to go the get it machined. i did manage to find a reproduction of the Oakland v8 101 service repair manual and a fisher and body manual so i guess that's a start