Backspacing on rims

[Razor454]

Question, what would be a good backspacing on the front and rear of a 1967 chevy truck.

Information:
-The truck has disk brakes all the way around.
-The measurements are 65" hub to hub in the front and 64" hub to hub in the rear.
-Will be installing 18"x7 or 8 Bonspeed Clutch rims.
-Installed a 2/4 drop

Tring to find a good backspacing that will put my tires just a bit inside the wheel well, and line up. I am trying to see if you guys have used a combo that works great.

[lolife99]

Either a 4 or 4.5 inch backspace should work fine. I would stick with the 8 inch rims, due to better tire selection. You can also get a 9.5 inch wide rim on the back! Do you have any pics of the truck?

[Razor454]

Here are a few pictures of what my truck use to look like before I tore it down. It’s roughly the same except for the changes I said previously. The tire combo that I had before the tear down were 15" x 8" Crager deep dish all the way around. These rims had 2.5" of backspacing and kind of stuck out in the front about 1/2", but due to changing all of the front suspension components to New this will change my geometry just a little (wont sag as bad).

[lolife99]

Nice truck! Stick with a 4 to 4.5 inch backspace,... and a minimum of a 50 series tire to fill up the fender well. You might look at some of the trucks in the picture section to get ideas.

[Razor454]

Thanks for the advice

After doing some measuring and putting some different combos (BS, widths & sizes) on paper. I think I need a 4.5" BS in the front and a 4" BS in the rear. This will set the tires at 72" rim tip to rim tip while on the truck; this should give me the desired "inside the wheel well" look I am after.