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I am going to order my wheels and tires from National Tire and Wheel early next week. I am fairly confident in my decision, but would feel better with some last minute feedback. I'm not used to spending $1100 without a lot of thought, and would feel better with opinions, good or bad, about the following order.
The order will be (4) 34"x10.50"r16 Swamper LTB tires mounted and balanced on 16x8 Eagle 589 8-lug wheels. The wheels have a 4" backspace and -11mm offset and the whole package will be going onto a 1994 F250HD 4x4. Please put my mind at ease by posting your opinions about fit, tire characteristics, and customer service! Thanks!
The order will be (4) 34"x10.50"r16 Swamper LTB tires mounted and balanced on 16x8 Eagle 589 8-lug wheels. The wheels have a 4" backspace and -11mm offset and the whole package will be going onto a 1994 F250HD 4x4. Please put my mind at ease by posting your opinions about fit, tire characteristics, and customer service! Thanks!
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I'll put your mind at ease for you. The tires are pretty good tires. I heard they are a bit noisey though. They are supposed to perform great. Also I think you choose soem good looking wheels. The most important thing is that you like it. Don't worry about other peoples negative coments. I learned that a long time ago!!!
GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!
GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!
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I think you're nuts. I think those tires are too skinny for that truck and I bet the load rating is really low. I would go with something in a 12.50 width at least. Also those wheels will be worthless to you in the future. In my experience most people with 3/4 and 1 ton's that run big tires have 16.5 wheels so you will have less luck buying used tires if you ever plan on it. I know we do a lot of that stuff around here.
Get some 35x12.50x16.5 on 16.5x9.75's Get the 589 style wheel but in the 16.5x9.75! (Which you're already looking at). They are cheap! Like 125 a wheel and they look great on that style truck. I used to have a 96.
Well that's my $.02. Do with it what you will.
Get some 35x12.50x16.5 on 16.5x9.75's Get the 589 style wheel but in the 16.5x9.75! (Which you're already looking at). They are cheap! Like 125 a wheel and they look great on that style truck. I used to have a 96.
Well that's my $.02. Do with it what you will.
Last edited by RRMike; May 30, 2003 at 07:45 PM.
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The LTB in that size has a listed load rating of 3195lbs. That should be more than enough for this truck. I'm keeping the 16" rim for the safety bead. As for width, the tread on my current tire is 7.4 inches wide!
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I'm sorry I glossed over your post and thought they were the regular tsl swampers. They have a low load rating.
I think all that safety bead stuff is total crap. I've seen so many 3/4 and 1 ton trucks spinning the he** out of the tires bouncing from side to side in ruts and hitting roots and rocks and everything else and never saw a tire just pop off the bead.
I don't worry about it a bit.
I just think the wider tires look and handle much better. On heavy rigs I prefer wide tires for offroad and skinnies on light rigs.
I think all that safety bead stuff is total crap. I've seen so many 3/4 and 1 ton trucks spinning the he** out of the tires bouncing from side to side in ruts and hitting roots and rocks and everything else and never saw a tire just pop off the bead.
I don't worry about it a bit.
I just think the wider tires look and handle much better. On heavy rigs I prefer wide tires for offroad and skinnies on light rigs.
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I think I'd rather have a 500lb goriila bouncing on my private region than put another set of BFG muds on my truck!
However, thanks for the laugh first thing in the morning! I still remember that BFG Mud post, it looked something like this
However, thanks for the laugh first thing in the morning! I still remember that BFG Mud post, it looked something like this
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