Tire Suggestions
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Tire Suggestions
It's my first time buying new tires for my 1979 F150 2wd, it currently has 31-10.5-15's on it, with chrome smoothy rims, and I don't know the rim width, doing a tire search it says I should have 235-75-15's for my truck, a deeper Google search tells me a comparison to my tires I have now would be more like 265-75-15, so I am asking the great and powerful members of FTE, what would you suggest I use as replacement tires ????
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Mostly it depends on what you like. do you like the looks of what you have ? a little smaller ? a lot of guys used to run 235/70-15's .
I don't remember what they came with but they looked stupidly small. you don't want to go there I'd bet..
I don't remember what they came with but they looked stupidly small. you don't want to go there I'd bet..
Mountain Pass
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Yes, I'd up the tire size a bit. My current tires are stock size for these rims and year(92-96) and the look really small(see my siganture). But I picked up these complete rims, caps, lug nuts with new tires for $200. I plan to replace with 265 70 15's when it's time. I've seen them on buddies truck and they look much better.
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I've got the 235/70/15s on mine. If you want to use that size, Walmart has, or at least had, a good deal on Goodyear Wranglers for less than $80 per tire. Everyplace else I looked wanted over $100 for brands I hadn't heard of.
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I have 235-75-R15 Goodyear wranglers on my 2wd F-100. Think I paid less than $450 all said. Great tires so far.
Some old timer mechanic told me that the 2wd king-pin set up will quickly these off-roadish tires in short manner, but take with a pile of salt.
Some old timer mechanic told me that the 2wd king-pin set up will quickly these off-roadish tires in short manner, but take with a pile of salt.
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Walmart has a LT31/10.50R15 (light truck - 31" - 10.5 wide - radial - 15" rim tire..... (or 235 75 R 15 tires)
I have 29" tires on mine right now.... I want the 31" tires.
I have 29" tires on mine right now.... I want the 31" tires.
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Mountain Pass
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This is a good site for figuring out what size you may want. Has some other calculator tabs for gear ratio affects and such.
https://tiresize.com/calculator/
https://tiresize.com/calculator/
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