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#16
09-29-2011, 02:35 PM
You should do some measuring and mock up if you can so you can get them tucked in without rubbing.
Wheel Tech - Offset
You say you have -11mm now?
Since you are lifted, not sure what will hit and what will fit.
IMO for better bearing life and handling, as close to zero or even positive as you can.
Wheel Tech - Offset
You say you have -11mm now?
Since you are lifted, not sure what will hit and what will fit.
IMO for better bearing life and handling, as close to zero or even positive as you can.
Well I'm lifting the truck 4" and the wheels I'm looking at are 16x10's with -11mm offset. I'll have to check into other offsets.
Makes sense the close to zero or positive.
Curious as to what others are running?
#18
09-29-2011, 06:37 PM
I guess the "33-12.50x15" type sizing is clearer if you don't know metric equivalents and don't understand aspect ratios. But:
--the metric system isn't communist (French, with origins dating back to 1670)
--the "pound & inches" system isn't American, but was foisted upon us by an oppressive foreign government that waged war upon us on our own soil.
What's ridiculous is that we allow two systems and never converted to metric because people are afraid of change and somehow even though they have 10 fingers, "can't'' learn a base-10 system.
Surprised you don't pine for the "All American" sizing system from the late '60s and '70s. Certainly "H78 x 15" tells you all you need to know.
As for the origins of the "33-12.50 x 15" style sizing, that has it origins in the mid 1950s for tractor and farm implement tire sizing. It's called "flotation sizing" btw. That system did not come into use on light truck tires until the late 1970s. (the metric system for tires dates to the mid 1960s in Europe, with some of those tires showing up here with those sizes on them, if you were bucks up and could afford Michelins for example)
Truck and car tires in that "day" were simply "7.50 x 15" or "7.00 x 16" or similar.
So it depends on what "day" you are talking about, and no one of these is more "correct" than the other. Given that the flotation sizes are rounded and vary by manufacturer, I wouldn't put that system up as more "correct" than anything else.
--the metric system isn't communist (French, with origins dating back to 1670)
--the "pound & inches" system isn't American, but was foisted upon us by an oppressive foreign government that waged war upon us on our own soil.
What's ridiculous is that we allow two systems and never converted to metric because people are afraid of change and somehow even though they have 10 fingers, "can't'' learn a base-10 system.
Surprised you don't pine for the "All American" sizing system from the late '60s and '70s. Certainly "H78 x 15" tells you all you need to know.
As for the origins of the "33-12.50 x 15" style sizing, that has it origins in the mid 1950s for tractor and farm implement tire sizing. It's called "flotation sizing" btw. That system did not come into use on light truck tires until the late 1970s. (the metric system for tires dates to the mid 1960s in Europe, with some of those tires showing up here with those sizes on them, if you were bucks up and could afford Michelins for example)
Truck and car tires in that "day" were simply "7.50 x 15" or "7.00 x 16" or similar.
So it depends on what "day" you are talking about, and no one of these is more "correct" than the other. Given that the flotation sizes are rounded and vary by manufacturer, I wouldn't put that system up as more "correct" than anything else.
My "Back in the day" perfect America would be the way it was in the 50's. They didn't get the title of the greatest generation for nothing.
But i'm going to stop now because i've hijacked this thread enough already
#19
09-29-2011, 07:45 PM
You're assuming that the metric number is the correct way to identify tire size and that's how you're concluding that my size is wrong.
I'm saying that the metric number is confusing and ridiculous and should be converted to the correct measurement style which is standard.
Back in the day (which was a Wednesday) when America was the way it should be tire sizes looked like this 33x12.50x15. I can tell you everything about the size of that tire without looking it up on a chart
Back then you got to use standard sized wrenches too... it must have been awesome!And back in the day, as far back as I can remember, passenger tires looked something like this (as expressed earlier) G60-15, G70-15, G78-15, etc.. Try to figure out what the section width was for each tire. With the P-Metric sizing, you have all the information available if you know what each number signifies. Not that hard really. The fist number signifies the section width of the tire in millimeters, the second is the aspect ratio of the sidewall in relation to the tire section width (50=50 percent, 55=55 percent, etc.), and the third is obviously the wheel diameter. But, since we live in an "Instant Gratification" time, tire sizing charts can be found anywhere, yes, even online.
Or you can use a conversion App like I did, to get your metric-to-inch conversion. 
#20
09-29-2011, 11:17 PM
I'm only 26!
I guess we differ in our opinion of France..
My "Back in the day" perfect America would be the way it was in the 50's. They didn't get the title of the greatest generation for nothing.
But i'm going to stop now because i've hijacked this thread enough already
I guess we differ in our opinion of France..
My "Back in the day" perfect America would be the way it was in the 50's. They didn't get the title of the greatest generation for nothing.
But i'm going to stop now because i've hijacked this thread enough already
)Agree on the hijack, I'll be quiet now.
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