my 88 k1500, tons of pics

[crazy4offroad]

How? Are you borrowing one?

It's a secret.

 

[Swims350]

study up some more on the net my friend, all my ball joints bolt in, so why would I need a press?

besides autozone rents em every day. We got one for dad's 84.

the thing aint needed though, my old man changed many with a big hammer, that's all it takes.

 

[davbell22602]

study up some more on the net my friend, all my ball joints bolt in, so why would I need a press?

besides autozone rents em every day. We got one for dad's 84.

the thing aint needed though, my old man changed many with a big hammer, that's all it takes.

Lucky duck. My top is bolted now and my bottom is pressed in my 97 K1500.

 

[Swims350]

pressed in aint bad, the press works great and beating them out with a sledge works too, if not just unbolt and let somebody do it for you. Doing that requires t -bar removal and that can be a pain.

I'm gonna clean and paint everything while I'm under there.

 

[Swims350]

just scored a FREE set of bfg's size 285/75-16's, supposed to be equal to 33 12.50's They measure in no air no rim at 31.5 inches tall and around 9.5-10 wide on the tread itself. They got over half tread left or right at half, enough to last me for a while, plus I'll know how close I am to running 35's.

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[crazy4offroad]

Good deal, they're 32.83075" according to World Wide Metric and my calculator lol, practically 33" and 11.2205" wide.

 

[HotRodPC]

Looks like they were ran over inflated with the center being thinner tread. But still a good score. I wouldn't max out the air pressure on those. I'd run them a little soft to ride on the outer portion of the tire and sue them in the rear if possible.

 

[89Suburban]

Good score bro.

 

[1983_SB_4X4]

Great job.

 

[Swims350]

better pics, all cleaned up and ready to go...

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I cleaned them all up real good then tire blacked them.

As for them being ran over inflated, yep, middle is worn more then the outsides, gonna run em a little bit low just as you said to flatten em out, and going to carefully look over them and put the worst 2 on the back, or the ones with the most weights to balance them out. They are even labeled as to which position they were on lol.

I really wanted to run my squarebody rallys, but hey these were free, can't beat that. Now I can wait for a good deal on some really nice mud tread 35's or something in a 15 and go for it later, at least it'll look better with a 33 filling up the tire wells, I hated having this look....

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NOT the wheels, the small tire and like 3 inches of room to spare.

 

[Swims350]

ok this might sound kinda dumb or newb to yall but hey..

found out load range E meant 10 ply and can do 80 psi.

Not interested in 80 psi but man 10 play that's pretty good. Kind of a nice surprise IMO.

 

[crazy4offroad]

If it's radial I dont think it's actually 10-ply, just 10-ply rated. Mainly for hauling heavy loads or pulling heavy tongue-weight trailers.

 

[Swims350]

ahh yep it's radial.

I would bet you're right on it, just rated for heavy stuff, still cool tho we haul some good loads every now and then.

 

[HotRodPC]

If its an 80lb MAX PSI, I'd run it no higher than 60PSI. If you by chance do tow or carry a heavy load, take them up to 70-75, then when done, drop them back down to 60.

 

[crazy4offroad]

This is probably why the center section is worn more than the outer edges. 40 would be a good run-around pressure for every day driving. Also depends on how wide your wheels are.