305 / 70 / 16's on my stock 16" rims.


I do have a 2" Donahoe Leveling Kit, but I don't think it makes much difference as far as clearances go.

I had a slight rub on the left side when I turned full lock to the left, but I found that it was the outside edge of the tire rubbing the fender well at the very bottom. The problem was caused by the fact that I had removed that fender well when putting in the EGT probe, and didn't get a lower plastic POS screw back in. Just needed to be pushed back about a quarter inch and it would have been fine.

But 315's might have rubbed.

Pics in my gallery.

TX

 

Where did you find those lights that go around your hitch??????? I want that, too!

 

They're called White Knights, or WhiteNights, depending on how a vendor has them listed. Tons of vendors have them. Surprisingly, Sears online had the best price.

You can mount it one of three ways:

- Permanent mount (like I have) where there are a couple of U shaped carrier bolts that clamp it to your stock receiver.
- Temporary mount, where it basically has a square tube attachment and just slides into the receiver....but you have to remove it when pulling a trailer.
- Permanent mount by just bolting it on top or underneath some area of your bumper.

If you have a 7-pin trailer plug, you'll connect two power wires. One is to the center pin wire, which makes the WhiteNights come on like backup lights (200 watts of backup lights!!), and another for manual power. There is a switch behind it that you can go flip on manually if you need light behind you.

If you do the permanent mount like mine, you'll need to move the trailer plug mount to the left about an inch (if I remember right). They make a relocation bracket, or you can do what I did and just drill a hole to the left and bolt it back on.

Took about 30 minutes, most of that was finding the Aux backup light pin on the hitch plug !

TX

 

Can they turn on when you flip it into reverse?????

 

Yes, sorry if that got buried in my post above.

One of the two power wires ties into your AUX pin wire (the center pin) on your 7-pin trailer plug. That wire goes hot when you put it in reverse, so now you've got a 200w backup light. The other wire goes to another trailer plug wire that's always hot (can't remember which). That's so you can walk around back and flip it on manually if you need light in the back temporarily.

If you don't want to splice into the trailer plug harness, then WhiteNight makes a 7-pin "pass-thru" plug that you just plug into the 7-pin trailer plug to run the WhiteNight, and still leave you a plug for your trailer. But it looked kind of bulky to me, so I just tapped the two wires.

Note that the backup (reverse) light functionality only works if you have the 7-pin trailer plug. The 4-pin "flat" won't do backup lights.

TX

 

Cool Thanks. If you don't mind, I am going to look into this!


Thanks Again!

 

http://www.whitenight.com/index.htm

 

i was always told to run backup lights, especially 200 watts of them, on their own switch and not to tap into stock backup light wires?
i want and need backup lights on my new truck, the stock lights for reverse are horrible.