Trailer Wheels [long post, simple question]

The trailer sat in a barn lot for a number of years, and the tires are split and rotted pretty badly [to deliver the thing to my house, we loaded this trailer frame on a car-hauler trailer with a winch, and unloaded the same way].

So, in order to make the trailer somewhat mobile in my driveway, I'm trying to deal with replacing the rotted tires. Since the front axle has bare hubs, I figured this would be the place to begin with the WD-40...since I could see the back of the lug bolts as well as the front. So after spraying liberally and walking away for a couple of weeks, yesterday I got out the electric impact--I don't have an air compressor--and impact socket, and started turning the lug bolts about 1/8 of a turn at a time until I got them all out without snapping any off. [I know I can get replacement lug bolts at Tractor Supply, so I plan to do so when I replace the wheels.]

I got out my handy-dandy wheel bolt circle gauge, and determined that the wheels are a 5 on 5-1/2" pattern. So I went to a friend's house, and asked him if he had any spare wheels and tires off his old Ford 4x4. He had one, and I took it back home for a test fit.

Well, the bolt pattern was correct, but the center hole was too small. Turns out his center hole is 3-3/8" in diameter, and the wheels that came off the trailer have a 4" center hole.

So...since I'm looking to replace the wheels and tires [rather than removing the junk tires and tubes, cleaning the rims and having them powdercoated, as they should be these days, in the mounting surfaces], does anyone know what vehicle used a 15" wheel with a 5-on 5-1/2" bolt circle, with a 4" center hole? I have an old Glenn Mitchell Interchange Manual from the late '60's, but its wheel specs don't mention center hole size.

Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated.

I just looked up implement wheels for Paul in a thread above:

diameter/width/bolt circle/center hole
15/3/4.5/--
15/5/5.5/4
15/6/5.5/4
15/8/5.5/4

See if that helps you.

T_Bone

Might be cheaper in the long run to just buy new rather than spend time and fuel searching junkyards, then cleaning and painting(or powdercoating) old wheels.

• Hobby farm

I think in the long haul, that'll be cheaper than doing the junkyard search...unless I can find a set of older Jeep CJ wheels and tires for a song in this week's local Bargain Mart auto trader-style paper.

Again, thanks for all the helpful advice.

Seriously though, since it sounds like you already knew about Summitt's website you might already be experienced with them. For those of you who aren't(and I'm just a satisfied customer), be sure to check them out for any aftermarket anything you might need. I'm in western Nebraska and they're in Ohio and I can call and order something and have it usually within 3 working days max....great company, great service.