first you cant buy many tires for a 16.5 any more. second 16.5 wheels have no saftey bead. so when running low air psi, the tire can fall off the bead, and a leak of any sort and the tire goes low, it can just fall off. they were not the safest wheel design.


I am using 8 lug 15s on my dana 60s and the front i had to grind the calipers down. My wheels dont have much backspace, so i cut a decent amount off the calipers. its close now but no rubbing. I happen to have stumbled on the wheels in my shop. At first i thought they were 16s but tried to put a tire on and they ended up being 15s.