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Sep 3, 2008 | 06:45 PM

peckhamjusten

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Need help on finding tires...

I have an 86 f150. Im looking for some tires that are wide and come almost flush with the wheel wells. I dont want them to stick out past the wheel wells because i am afraid of the wheel wells diggin into the tires if i take a bump too fast. I want the speedo to read roughly the same n not be off too much. I currently have 7 inch wide rims and am goin to upgrade to 8 inch, maybe 10 if needed to get this look for my truck. I have seen this look on other vehicles before and love it. Just today i saw an older lightning, well it might have been a regualer f150 but had lightning logos, but the tires were nice n wide and filled the whole gap between the wheel wells without stickin out. thats kind of the look im lookin for.

thanks everyone

Sep 3, 2008 | 08:08 PM

Redneck1465

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8's are about as wide as you need for them to be flush with the wheel wells.

Sep 3, 2008 | 08:13 PM

doug1222556

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I do too, I bought some rims that were 9" wide and had the right hole centers and looked like a good backset. Then I found some wide tires, (a little narrower than I want, but close...). I had my neighbor mount one up for me. We struggled with that tire but finally got it on. He made the comment that it acted like it was a 16" rim. I measured it and found out it was!!!!! We pulled the tire off without airing it up because I figured if we seated the beads, it may never come back off. I bought the rims at a swap meet and they were labed as 15"- the one measurement I hadn't taken on them!!!!