If you want the specifics... I've had a couple of A&I wheels now that were not concentric... so when I went to place the center dish in the wheel I ended up needing to bend the wheel nearly 3/4" to get the last three lugs mounted and get the dish seated on the lugs. It's a quality control issue. Wether it's just sloppy work, poor forming or they have a bad jig/fixture... I don't know but I know I had two wheels exactly the same. They're also thinner and softer. You hit a Sankey wheel with a hammer.... it's fairly hard. These things were quite soft. So from my point of view you're getting better steel and you're getting better quality control. The other factor is that NH (and most other mainlines) parts systems and inventory systems are costly to operate... so there's a lot of overhead built into that price. Then the warehouse level markup is added... then the dealer markup... and no doubt there is a considerable oppertunity markup in some cases as well. A&I can cherry pick what parts they want to carry, keep minimal stock, keep their overhead down, etc... so they have an oppertunity there to sell for quite a bit less money... on top of often times selling a lower quality product. That's not always the case either. It's not that I want to malign them as they do sell a lot of good stuff too... but that's just how it works when they're sourcing bottom dollar parts from far off places. Sometimes the ball gets dropped.
Wether or not it's worth the cost to buy the expensive stuff... that's a judgement call. For me it is because I know that stuff gets worked HARD around here. For someone who's not working ti so hard or carrying heavy loads... mabey the cheaper stuff will work fine and save you a bunch of money... but they way I see your situation... you have a loader on a 5000. The OEM wheels were nothing extra to start with for carrying that kind of weight. Going to something that is cheap and perhaps suspect in quality... it's probably going to fail sooner than later. It's not really worth it to me to wreck a tire or hub or axle to save some money on a wheel.
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