I need help!

I have finally ordered a 6" lift kit for my 79 F350 but I'm not sure what size tires to order. I would love to see some lifted dents with some specs from the forum so I can get some ideas. I currently have 33" on it now.

I'll be doing the installation next weekend. Photos will surely follow for you viewing pleasure.

Thanks everybody!

 

79 F250 with a 6" Skyjacker soft ride kit, even with the "kit" still had to use the factory blocks in the back.

1st pic tires are 35x14.50x16.5 Boggers, 2nd pic is 36X12.50X16.5 Goodyear HUMVEE tires.

Lift is very stiff and pretty much no flex, so I have never rubbed a fender, but I have tried. Did you get the longer steel braided brake lines front and rear? Good call IMO

And a little adjustment of the where the rear emergency brake cables go thru the frame area.

I also a drop pitman arm, no problems with the D/S.

 

a one ton with the six inch lift you should be able to clear 38's. i had a picture of a 78 with 36X15.5's i dont know what the offset on the rims was but it was alot and it looked great. what do you plan to do with the truck? I'd say if your gona mud it alot go with a 38.5X10.5. but if your not gona see too much mud go with a 36 or 37 15.5 wide on a 4" offset rim. thats sure to turn heads

 

I agree a very good call and I thought about it after I placed the order. I will call my supplier to have a set ready for me when I pick up my lift kit next week. It's also a Skyjacker 6" lift. Your rims look really nice. Nice choice.

Most of my off road fun has been 4X4 trails in the mountains nothing really too serious. A friend of mine goes to the Rubicon trail in the California Sierra mountains but that looks more like a Jeep trail. I think I would tear up my sides of my truck and body parts are hard to come buy.

What is an "offset" for a rim?

Here's a before picture.

 

Nice rims, thanks, which one's alum or white? Rattle can on the white one's, but heck its a mudder. The lift is REAL stiff, almost to stiff for a DD, glad mine's not.

Getting in the new bushings is a little ruff use something to lube them up. Also there is a difference in the bushings in the front and rear on each spring. I believe because of the difference of the mount bolt dia?

As far as the "offset" question it is as follows, a wheel consists of the rim (the part the tire mounts on) and the mounting plate (the part that bolts to the truck).

If the wheel had "zero" offset the mounting plate would be directly in the middle of the rim. Now if you have positive offset, it moves the rim out towards the body. Negative offset moves the tire closer to the middle of the truck.

Not to be confused with backspacing, backspacing is the distance from the inside bolting surface (Hub mounting pad) of the rim to the outer edge of the inboard side of the rim. To determine backspacing simply lay the wheel face down and lay a straight edge (or board, or anything else that is flat) across the wheel. Use a tape measurer or ruler and measure the distance from the bottom of the straight edge to the hub mounting pad. This is your backspace and when choosing rims can help you determine rim depth in the wheel well.

Damn nice truck you have there, hope this helps. Make sure you post up a pic.

 

damn nice truck. dont beat it up too bad.