New tires & wheels & a poll for fun..

New tires & wheels & a poll for fun..

05-02-2008, 06:36 AM

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New tires & wheels & a poll for fun..

I had to get new wheels cuz one broke, thats another story.
A few asked for pics & specs + I wanted to do a poll.

Tires are: 295/70R17E Toyo M/T 3970 LB rated @ 80 psi.
Wheels are: American Racing "Fuel-8" 17x8.5 with 5 & 3/8" back space, +15mm offset.
Dunno what the load capacity is but they do have a lifetime structural warranty.

The poll.. Wheels ended up a little more bling seems like so to tone things down a little I was thinking of changing the body color flares to pocket style and Line-X them like this lifted one. Mine doesn't have a lift so not too sure if the girthy pocket style flares would look right but the tires seem pretty large to me anyway. What do you like?

edit.. after some measuring I see the new tires don't stick out as much as the old ones & wider flares wouldn't look right so maybe I should do the black Power Wagon flares. I have a flare coming loose that needs a remount so gotta take one off anyway.

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