Bent wheel need help

[inh]

I nailed a curb and bent one of my front wheels. Its not a bad dent by any means, a section of the rim where the bead of the tire hooks on to is bent less than 1/4 inch in, and the entire dent from start to finish is maybe 5 inches long, probably less. The dent doesnt go towards the center of the rim, its more like it was pushed towards the center of the truck, as if hitting a curb

The car shakes like hell, and on the freeway its scary. I'm leaving for the army in a week, but in the meantime i have a lot of driving i need to do.. Any ideas?

ALso, i looked at the lugnuts while driving slow to try and see if the axel might have been bent. The lugnuts never wobbled so im sure its jst the dented wheel.

 

[jimbo74]

if its an alloy wheel, you are SOL... put the spare on, and hope its the same size

 

[inh]

Its not alloy. At least i dont think so. Its the stock wheel , the one with the three big 'spokes'. As for the spare, its a real spare, not a real tire, and its smaller then the 31s i have on there now.

this is the rim:

 

[jimbo74]

take the rim to a shop, they can probably fix it partially... the rim is stell... its pretty much screwed if its off a horrible amount of balance, but they might be able to fix it a little bit, rebalance, and mount it on the rear... if the spare rim is the same, swap the 31 onto it and use the bent rim as the spare rim

 

[ExplorerDMB]

I agree with Jim

 

[inh]

Took it to the local tire place. They pulled the dent out of the rims edge and rebalanced the wheel, but it looks like overalll the rim is still bent a bit. The tire wobbles, but it doesnt shake the truck nearly as bad, and is useable on the freeway now. Not too bad for $15