285/70/17 on stock wheels

[Zepproxx]

You'll need the lift for 285's, minimum spacers for front needed

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[Zepproxx]

I have 1.5” inch spacers on my truck. Installed 285 70/17 mud tires with +12mm offset rims on my truck yesterday and had to trim my Rough Country fender flares right away. The tires are abut 32 1/4” high. So I used my oscillating saw and did that in two minutes. Today I’m going to trim both crash bars just a bit. The tires are rubbing on tight turns or when I’m parking or breaking while tight turning. If I put ATV or street tires on I’m pretty sure I’d have no rubbing but the mud tire has a wider stance at the edge. The Atv rim has 9” of tread that would rub. The mud tire has more like 10” of tread. So when running 285 70/17 ATV or mud matters. The Atv has more of a rounded edge sort of.

 

[Frenchy]

I have 1.5” inch spacers on my truck. Installed 285 70/17 mud tires with +12mm offset rims on my truck yesterday and had to trim my Rough Country fender flares right away. The tires are abut 32 1/4” high. So I used my oscillating saw and did that in two minutes. Today I’m going to trim both crash bars just a bit. The tires are rubbing on tight turns or when I’m parking or breaking while tight turning. If I put ATV or street tires on I’m pretty sure I’d have no rubbing but the mud tire has a wider stance at the edge. The Atv rim has 9” of tread that would rub. The mud tire has more like 10” of tread. So when running 285 70/17 ATV or mud matters. The Atv has more of a rounded edge sort of.

More like 32.75 on the tire diameter.

BTW why do you have the combination of the spacers and those wheels?! A +12 is 43 MM different than the factory +55 offset and that combination will have the wheels sticking out by more than 3 inches. You are asking for trouble with that setup.......

 

[Zepproxx]

More like 32.75 on the tire diameter.

BTW why do you have the combination of the spacers and those wheels?! A +12 is 43 MM different than the factory +55 offset and that combination will have the wheels sticking out by more than 3 inches. You are asking for trouble with that setup.......

The crash bars are gone as of today and I had to trim the deflector under the bumper. 1.5 inch spacers and the stance is bad ass. It justifies those rough country gender lares now. I didn’t want the low profile tire many are going for now. I wanted a beefy sidewalk mud look. Plus most of my muddying will be in the corner area palm beach county Alabama on a friends property so more side wall muds better. The guys that go out to the Corbett area get stuck in low profile rims. I got the look and functionality I wanted. Also although I only drive this truck after work sometimes I run into mud as a factor and that tire size gets me in and out of a job site under any conditions when only excavators can get in and out on what barely resembles a road.

 

[Frenchy]

The crash bars are gone as of today and I had to trim the deflector under the bumper. 1.5 inch spacers and the stance is bad ass. It justifies those rough country gender lares now. I didn’t want the low profile tire many are going for now. I wanted a beefy sidewalk mud look. Plus most of my muddying will be in the corner area palm beach county Alabama on a friends property so more side wall muds better. The guys that go out to the Corbett area get stuck in low profile rims. I got the look and functionality I wanted. Also although I only drive this truck after work sometimes I run into mud as a factor and that tire size gets me in and out of a job site under any conditions when only excavators can get in and out on what barely resembles a road.

Perhaps you are confused with the low profile type tires? Low profile would be a small sidewall. A 285/70-17 does not have a small sidewall at all and is nowhere near considered a low profile. I myself have ran that size on my 2019 Ranger years ago and it was a nice size to run. As for the justification of the Fender Flares, I would highly recommend getting the correct wheels and sticking with that. If you combine the spacers and wheels that stick out that much you are going to heavily increase the chance of a.wheel coming off especially when going OffRoad. It is simply not a safe thing to do that no one should be doing or encouraging........

 

[Zepproxx]

Perhaps you are confused with the low profile type tires? Low profile would be a small sidewall. A 285/70-17 does not have a small sidewall at all and is nowhere near considered a low profile. I myself have ran that size on my 2019 Ranger years ago and it was a nice size to run. As for the justification of the Fender Flares, I would highly recommend getting the correct wheels and sticking with that. If you combine the spacers and wheels that stick out that much you are going to heavily increase the chance of a.wheel coming off especially when going OffRoad. It is simply not a safe thing to do that no one should be doing or encouraging........

Yes I wanted a higher

Perhaps you are confused with the low profile type tires? Low profile would be a small sidewall. A 285/70-17 does not have a small sidewall at all and is nowhere near considered a low profile. I myself have ran that size on my 2019 Ranger years ago and it was a nice size to run. As for the justification of the Fender Flares, I would highly recommend getting the correct wheels and sticking with that. If you combine the spacers and wheels that stick out that much you are going to heavily increase the chance of a.wheel coming off especially when going OffRoad. It is simply not a safe thing to do that no one should be doing or encouraging........

perhaps you misread my post?

 

[Zepproxx]

Yes I wanted a higher sidewalk that’s why I got 285 79/16. Perhaps you misread my post. I explained my mudder reasoning. This is an after work truck. I take my dogs to the park and run a few errand's. As far as I know there are no catastrophic failures with my friends that run wheel spacers with lift kits and bigger tires. The worst thing ya can do is a lift on top of the shock assembly. If running a 3.5” leveling lift kit with 33’s the lawyers would be lining up for the class action lawsuits. The leveling kits that sit on top of the shock assembly is completely different. Illegal in Tennessee. Spacers can catastrophically fail in hard breaking under a tow load or a crash. I did a full suspension lift. I checked the tourque setting on my spacers and they were at 100 FT pounds per ford lug nut spec after being on the truck for two months with thread locker. My wheels ain’t coming off ever.

perhaps you misread my post?

Yes I wanted a higher

perhaps you misread my post?

Perhaps you are confused with the low profile type tires? Low profile would be a small sidewall. A 285/70-17 does not have a small sidewall at all and is nowhere near considered a low profile. I myself have ran that size on my 2019 Ranger years ago and it was a nice size to run. As for the justification of the Fender Flares, I would highly recommend getting the correct wheels and sticking with that. If you combine the spacers and wheels that stick out that much you are going to heavily increase the chance of a.wheel coming off especially when going OffRoad. It is simply not a safe thing to do that no one should be doing or encouraging........

Please read my post again. I wrote I wanted more sidewall.

 

[Frenchy]

Please read my post again. I wrote I wanted more sidewall.

More sidewall has nothing to do with bringing the wheel out that far...........

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