This could be a long story but I'll shorten it as much as possible.

A year ago or so back I ordered an extra spare steel wheel for my '97 F-150. This was so I could have two spares mounted while on hunting trips or whatever.

Got the wheel in mid winter, mounted a tire on it and threw it in the bed. i did not try it on the hub at that time. Later on, I had a blow out and decided to use the new wheel because it was still laying in the bed and easy to get to.

Okay, you guessed it. Wrong size wheel. The 5 hole pattern was about 1/2" too small, (Metric, I know), and of course it was useless to me.

I know I'll not get the time of day from the distributor because I waited too long to find out it didn't fit but here is my question.

How can I figure out what this wheel really fits??

I'd give it away or sell it if I knew. I paid over $100.00 for it originally and hate to just dump it.

It has markings sort of like what you'd find on a tire but must correspond to a vehicle I'd think.

Any Ideas??

The marks are in two groups:

A 20 3 A11 5

98 A 19 and something that looks like a Ford oval.

I'd sure appreciate any help you might be able to give me on this.

Thanks for lookin'.

 

lets see a pic of it

 

These are the '97-'98 OEM wheel options for the F150:

 

It's the very first one in the top left row. Standard spare steel wheel.

Except mine has the wrong hole pattern.

Thanks

 

The 98 A 19 sounds like a date code, probably 1998 January 19.

Ford 1/2 ton truck wheel patterns have been 5 on 5 1/2" forever until 1997-2003 when they became 5 on 135mm. 2004 & up is 6-135mm.

All I can say is measure the new wheels bolt pattern ....... but you need 5-135mm.

 

I've already bought two more of the wheel next to that one so I've got three spares now.

What I'm trying to do is identify the wrong one, (small hole pattern), so I can give it away or sell it to someone who could use it.

 

You will have to measure the bolt pattern to identify it.

Just asking, it IS a 5 lug wheel, not a 7, right? the 7 lug wheels were 7-115mm.

 

"The 5 hole pattern was about 1/2" too small, (Metric, I know), and of course it was useless to me."

The best measurement I get is 5 on 4-1/4 or right at 5-106mm.

 

It's a 16" wheel, right?

See also:
http://www.rodgard.com/Wheel%20Ident...0Locations.pdf

 

Yep. I had a 16" tire mounted on it which is one reason I didn't try it on the truck. Besides it was pretty darn cold up here at the time.

Actually, I thought it might go on a Ranger or an Explorer but we'd just traded our Explorer for a 2004 with 17" wheels so that didn't work out.

Plus this...The inside drum is marked 3191-20 and the inside face of the disc is marked 7C.