rockcrawler wheels on '79
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rockcrawler wheels on '79
The only 15" 8 lug wheels I can find are the Rockcrawler 88 series. Somebody on another forum said they are rare because of the problem clearing the rims with the brakes on bigger trucks. Has anybody had these wheels on their trucks? Also, there is 4.25" backspacing on this rim, and i will run a 33x10.50 tire on it. How would that look? The truck is at a stock height and there is no fender trimming, etc. By the way, its a f-250 4x4
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i have 5 lug 15" rockcrawlers on on my 2wd F-150 and they dont leave alot of room around the brakes, so im sure they wont fit on a 3/4 ton....but they look great on my F-150...click the link in my sig and see.....
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I'm glad to know that it wont work instead of buying them and it not fitting (yep they are disk, and that is a massive caliper) but it sucks cause now I have more decisions to make. Maybe we should just go with the original rims...they are the one that were pretty much solid, no holes or anything, and they were painted the color of the truck. They are pretty rusty, and look like crap on the newly painted truck. We have a little paint left over, so could we simply sand blast the wheels and paint them? Or would the wheel have to be put into a kiln or something to really harden the paint to the wheel? Thanks alot for everybodys input
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Definately go with 16's you have alot of choices in rims and tires. If you stay with the original rims then tire size is limited due to that your original rims are only 7 inches wide If your not planning on doing a offroading but if you wanted some bigger tires then go with 16's like 16x8 or 16x10 and so forth.I have on my 76 Hiboy 16x8 black wagon wheels with 35/12.5/16's.