Wide tire question

[drhd]

Maybe somebody knows. I have been building Chevy trucks for years and have learned most of the GM cans and can nots. Looking for a change I;m now working on my first Ford project. I know you can run a 29" tall 15" wide tire with a 10" rim on a lowered GM truck by just widing the finder wells in the bed. Waiting a hot rod look on this project I was trying to find out if this wide of a tire combo would fit under a 76 f-150 2-wd LWB lowered 4". Is any body running a wide tire on a stock truck like this?

 

[bigun72]

my bro has some 10.5 on his 10" rims , and he has plenty of room.....so i dont see why you cundt put a 15 on it.....

 

[Mil1ion]

DRHD,

did you not know that a stock P235-75 R 15 tire has a tire height of about 30".

I don't know why this mention of tire height is used so much.

If I hear someone say I have a set of 33's, I say well that is only 3" above stock .. then they go ...HUH it is ?

 

[LEB Ben]

You should be able to fit a 29x15 with somewhere in a 3.5-4" backspacing...backspacing is what's key.

 

[drhd]

DRHD,

did you not know that a stock P235-75 R 15 tire has a tire height of about 30".

I don't know why this mention of tire height is used so much.

If I hear someone say I have a set of 33's, I say well that is only 3" above stock .. then they go ...HUH it is ?

Yea I know the stock tire was a L78-15, that the reason I choose the 29-15-15 MT so I could keep the stock height. the 295-50-15 and N50-15 is in the 27" range. The question was more about the weith being 15" instead of 12" like the 50 series tires.

 

[jsutton]

I run 295/50/15's on my truck with 15X10 rims with 4" of backspacing. They stick out past the edge of the truck so if you are gonna go with a 10" wide rim then it would have to have probably at least 6" backspacing. I like mine sticking out though.