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Sir, do yourself a favor and buy a full set of iron drums and a nice set of Wheel Vintiques Series 64 chrome reverse wheels from Summit. They come in the 15 x 7 with a 4.25 back space. Get them balanced on the Hunter Road Force balancer and go enjoy the time you have left with this car..

You have a set of Rodger Rhiels relined 8 lug drums. I went through hell with those drums. Then I bought those repo 15" 8 lug wheels that weigh 100 lbs each. That made matters even worse.. Kelsey Hayes knew those drums needed lighter rims so in 67-68 they removed as much steel as possible from the rim. Thats why the 67 and 68 8 lugs had a checker looking band and always seemed to work best for me..

This worked one time for me, take the drum and torque the wheel to it, mark everything and take it to the machine shop and have them true the drums down with the rims bolted to the drums. After doing this make sure you only use the rim with that drum in the exact spot it was machined in..

I finally got a good set of originals from Franks Pontiac Parts. Trouble was all he had was two fronts, I couldn't find rears. I finally pitched the whole deal and went with the iron drums just like the NASCAR Pontiacs had.. Frank told me almost every 8 lug drum he has seen in his life time was corroded between the aluminum drum and the iron liner. These two metals expand and contract at different levels. When one side is hot and the other cooler moister gets in between the liner and hub and they corrode. This causes high spots every time the temperature changes or something to that effect. They tried using some kind of epoxy but they never finished it...

You will be so happy with the iron drums. They ride smoothly and stop just as fast as the aluminum drums did. I bought a set of Cooper tires from Diamond Back, they removed all the sidewall printing, they looked just like the old Bias Ply tires..