so i got the alcoas, and once they get cleaned up i am gonna get some tires for them. now if i am not mistaken my stock tire is a 30.5 (cant remember the actually metric numbering). and i want to step it up a bit. If i am reading the chart in the sticky right i can go up to a 33" with just a mild tbar crank.

here is the dilemma. i dont want to re gear right now, plus i dont want to crank the **** out of the tbars, even at all actually. so what size should i go with, and not have the truck be a dog, i know we are only talking a few inches but i have no idea or basis for comparison.

lets have your input.

 

32s

 

go with 32's. theyre good size and wont bogg the truck too much

 

How much more are 32s over 31s?

 

Why would 31s be more expensive, its a smaller tire.

 

My bad, I ment the other way around.

 

Just go with the 33s your not gonna have a problem witht he 4.0, and they may fit w/o touching the tbars. I did some on a 98 Ranger at work a couple weeks ago and the didnt rub, and it was all stock. But every truck is different.

 

They won't fit on a 04, you'd have to max out the t-bars.

 

32's. What gears do you have?

 

i have an open 4.10 now, but i have a 4.10 L/S that is going in sometime.

 

Shoot, if you ran 33's you wouldn't need to regear. I have 3:55's and I'm running 32's Yours will drive like a dream.

 

32s will be great then, i get better mileage than stock.

 

33x10.50

Love mine. Time for new ones actually.

 

that pretty much kills the 33's then, untill/ if i do the BL

 

32x11.5x15 thats what i had on my truck before the lift with my alcoa's i loved it. NO T-bar Crank

here:






















here is Bill's 2004 level II with stock alcoa and 33x12.5x15 with a T-bar crank













only prob with doing 33x12.5x15 on a 15x7 is you WILL NOT get proper wear out of them at all.... they will fit tho on a 15x7 because they are so narrowed because of the rim



here is the same tires 11 days later with a body lift and 15x10 ... its amazing how a 15x7 draws that tire in....

 

^^ nice comparison pics. I think 15x10's look gawd awful. Mexican or something.

 

+1, I like 15x8s with a 12.50, they look nice and work well.

 

I've just put 31s on my truck with some 15x8 steel Cragars. The rims are like lead weights, but I find they do not hinder the truck's performance until you start going up a big hill. That's when I've got to gear down, or stay in a lower gear than I usually would be.

I am most likely stepping up to 32s shortly, and I expect to get a bit of a hit in performance since the tire/rim combo is going to be heavy, and my old 4.0 just rolled 250k miles, but she's still got lots of pep and I don't beat on it...much.

You should be fine with the 32s, and actually I just posted a thread asking if I can fit 32s with no lift and the answer seems to be yes.

 

I have a 2004 "Appearance" 2WD, and I'm gonna lift it up 4" with the spindles/blocks ( the t-bars were cranked before I got the truck) and that's the exact wheel I was looking for ( the 15 x 10) I haven't decide on the T/A's, ( maybe The Yokahama Geolanders) but who makes the that wheel? Thanks