Wide rear wheels.

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Some tire shops will let you rent/ borrow a wheel right tool from them to measure. You can also make a tool in a few minutes with a couple pieces of scrap wood. One piece bolts to face of drum and the other piece on top like a T. You just keep trimming until you have the height, width, backspacing figured out.

I recently made a fitment gauge out of some scrap steel, a paint stick and a coat hanger. It made it real easy to visualize how the rim and tire would fit in the wheel well. I bent the coat hanger roughly to size, according to the specs of the tire I wanted to run.

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This truck has 15×8″ in the front with a 4″ backspace, 245/60/15 tires. The rears are 15×10″ with a 5″ backspace, 295/50/15's.

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That is one nice truck! I really like the tire/wheel combination.
 

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@82sbshortbed,

OH MAN!! You gotta' be kiddin'. What tread is that? It looks like rock crawling tread but with a width used to trek across the Artic!
 

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3:42 gear and 4L80E transmission ;)


Well ****.. that was almost exactly the gear ratio i wanted to run, 3.42 on around that tire size
 

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running good here so far! ;)

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