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Old 10-16-2019, 01:26 PM   #18
1976gmc20
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Re: K10 Wheels / Tires

You could always just kick the can down the road and get a new set of LT235/75r15(C) on the stock wheels.

If you're all or mostly on pavement you likely won't have the tire damage. We didn't have any trouble with the tires on our Suburban the first couple years until we moved out here ten miles off the highway on gravel/dirt road. Then we started getting flats all the time it seemed and many of them not repairable.

Our Suburban apparently ran on P235/75r15(B) tires for 140K miles before we got it. I swapped them out for LT(C)'s pretty soon and I think I still have the factory spare sitting out there in the shed

Of course our Suburban has the 700r4 with overdrive so highway speed rpms aren't so much of an issue. But 70++ does kill the mileage down to 12 or 13, but at 65 it gets (or used to, anyway) 15-16. We drive it so little these days that even when I take it to town on the highway I just leave it in Drive. The extra rpms are probably good for the engine once in a while.
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1958 Chevy C-60; 1965 GMC C-50; 1965 Chevy C-10; 1971 Chevy K-10; 1973 Chevy K-20; 1976 GMC C-20; 1977 Chevy C-10 Suburban; 1980 Chevy K-10; 1989 Chevy K1500; 1991 GMC V1500 Suburban; 2016 Chevy K2500 HD

Other vehicles: 1988 Jeep XJ; 2011 Toyota 4Runner
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