View Single Post
Old 07-13-2011, 03:01 PM   #2
GCncsuHD
Charlie Daniels w/ a Tq Wrench
 
GCncsuHD's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Statesville, NC
Posts: 1,570
Re: 8 lug tires and rims

Bolt pattern is 8x6.5" (8x165.1mm)

As far as tire choice, there are way too many to mention, and your requirements are too broad. What works in one situation would not be best in the next. Many tires that are great in the mud, are good in the snow, decent on the road, but scary when the road is wet, and downright deadly on ice. Whereas a milder all terrain would be good on ice, wet road, dry road, ok in snow, but might get stuck on wet grass much less mud. Tug o war? On pavement or grass or dirt or? Different tires do better for different surfaces, street tires with softer tread or soft all terrains do good on pavement, but not on dirt, oddball tires like Trxus STS are awesome pulling on dirt, but suck on pavement and everything else.

Your best bet for all around is a mild mud terrain tire, something like Cooper STT, Toyo M/T, SSR, MTR, to name a few, they have good aggressive tread with big voids for mud, but also have siped tread for decent wet traction and ok ice traction. You can also have sipes cut into other mud tires with solid tread blocks for better wet/ice traction.
__________________
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
67 C10 Shortbed "Great Grandpa's Truck" I6 3 on the Tree 71k original miles 5.3 swap in the works
69 K5 Blazer-Family Beach Cruiser Project
78 K30 Dually Semi-Retired Fire Truck 350/SM465 35"s
SOLD01 2500HD ECSB 6.0 4x4 5.13's 8" lift 38"s
GCncsuHD is offline   Reply With Quote