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I think it will work. Your design follows the proven concept that has been applied to the M35A2 type trucks. Only thing is, installation of this would appear to be a day's project in a well equipped shop. I suspect installing this to facilitate a recovery will be difficult. Wehring had the...

I weighed the steel FMTV rim and it is 125 lbs.

Premier is where the wheels and nuts came from. They have been scrapping those wheels as fast as they can dismount them.

The studs are the same but the nuts are very special: (ones on the bottom)

I think the steel wheel weighs around 100 lbs. I don't own an aluminum wheel yet, but I bet it is around 70 lbs. So a whopping 120 lbs weight savings on the truck, not counting the spare.

Here is the aluminum wheel. It was used on the later Caiman MRAPs. I would say the bed weighs less than a G742 deuce bed, maybe 1200 lbs?