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Old 09-05-2013, 09:51 PM   #1
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New wheels on, from 15's to 20's.

Got the Cragars sold. They looked good but the Ridler's fit my style more
The drop is a 3.5 / 4...27in tires in front, 27.8 in the rear. 20x8.5, 20x10's. 255/35 and 275/35 Hankook's. I think I will go ahead and drop it another 2 inches all around.

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Old 09-05-2013, 09:53 PM   #2
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Cool Re: New wheels on, from 15's to 20's.

The truck looks lower with the Cragers than with the new ones. I like it though and another 2"'s will look right at home!
Very nice!
I like the caddy wagon to. I started to buy the wife one but she wanted a small SUV instead.
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Old 09-05-2013, 09:54 PM   #3
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Re: New wheels on, from 15's to 20's.

Yeah the 15's had 26in tires on
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Re: New wheels on, from 15's to 20's.

i think another 2 inches will do also, nice upgrade
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Re: New wheels on, from 15's to 20's.

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i think another 2 inches will do also, nice upgrade
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Yeah to pull it off with the 35 series tires they almost need to either tuck or meet the fender line. Sucks I just spent the money to have it loweredonly to find out not enough. I may just cut the front springs and replace the rears. What ever is easiest at this point. I see your running the same size tires, can you post a couple pics. Nice truck BTW
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Re: New wheels on, from 15's to 20's.

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Yeah to pull it off with the 35 series tires they almost need to either tuck or meet the fender line. Sucks I just spent the money to have it loweredonly to find out not enough. I may just cut the front springs and replace the rears. What ever is easiest at this point. I see your running the same size tires, can you post a couple pics. Nice truck BTW
iam guessing you have 2.5 spindles and 1 inch spring up front and 4 inch spring in the rear? thanks for the compliment click on the blue link in my signature plenty of pics in there.
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Old 09-06-2013, 12:07 PM   #7
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Re: New wheels on, from 15's to 20's.

You have a very nice truck. The 15's looked better to me. Would have been cool with bigs in the back and littles up front.

The "big" wheels look out of place to me on these trucks.

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