I am putting together my lift and wheel package. I dont have the money to buy everything at once so Im buying what I can get now. Im looking at getting 35 x 12.5 x 16 BFG AT and a 6inch edge lift. My problem is when I went to order the rims, I read somewhere that the F250 is Hub-centric. THe rims I wanted were American Eagle at about 150.00 each. The only rims I saw that were hub-centric where made by Weld and close to 300.00 each. Then I saw that the recommended back spacing for the lift is 5 inches. Weld only makes that back spacing in a 17 inch which adds more to my cost making me get 17inch tires! I dont want to spend that much and I know Ive seen 35 x 16 x 12.5 only some trucks out there with lifts. Anyone else go through this ? Thanks

Mike

 

Yep, AE Wheels are lug centric.
Weld and Alcoa are the only ones that I know of that make hub centric wheels.

I'd go with 4.5-4.625" Backspacing. If you are going with 16s be careful with Welds since many of the styles only come in 3.625" BS in the 16" size.


Hope this helps.

 

Thanks for the reply. I talked with someone at SDHQ and they said they have run lug centric with no issues. So Im swaying to Eagle 102 18x10 inchers.

 

Lots of people run lug centrics without any issues.....I have 27,000 miles running lug centric wheels so far.

 

Just this evening I installed American Eagle series 102 wheels, although they are only 16 X 8 so that I can put on Nitto 285/75R16 tires without the centers wearing out prematurely, like the last set of Nitto 305/70R16s did on stock wheels. Which center caps did you use for the front? The ones they sent look kind of stupid, too big?

Thanks,

tomslusher

 

I agree that the center caps for the front wheels look bad.........that's why I don't run them:

 

How do you like those PJs, I was looking at those and the Toyo, BFG all Terrains. Still undecided

 

I have a little over 1000 miles on them and so far I like them alot. They hum a little on the street but ride pretty smooth. I used to have 35" BFG ATs and what I always hated was the amount of gravel they picked up and threw at the truck. So far I haven't heard any getting thrown with the PJs and I've had it in the gravel a lot with them. Plus, the PJs sound a lot cooler when you spin them...a bit more of a howl to them

From what I hear, the new Toyo Open Country M/T tires are supposed to be the hot tire to get. Everyone I know with them loves them.