You met your wife in your truck? What was she doing in your truck?

I didnt mean buy a new one (who the hell would want that?) ...just swap it for a second gen dually...

 

I haul a lot of livestock for hire. She was one a those crazy horse people that hired me to pick up a load of horses for her up in Iowa. I went by her house the morning I was headin up there to pick em up cause I needed all the legal paperwork. Next thing I knew she was climbin in the truck and goin with me. This wasn't normal but she was hot and it was an 19 hour round trip so I figured some company would be nice and didn't say anything. We were married 3 months later. OH LORDY WHAT DID I GET MYSELF INTO.

 

REALLY? Thats a great story...

 

Maybe it could have won me a FASS or Truck of The Year.

 

Its not that good...

 

Well I have decided to stick with the single rear wheel on this idea. Now can anybody tell me the good or bad points to all the sizes available. 19, 19.5, 22, 22.5, 24 and 24.5. I'm sure there is more to this than I am seeing so what's the lowdown on all the differences here. For any of you running these tires and wheels speak up and let me know what you think of em to.

 

The Rickson site is pretty straight forward and easy to see what they offer. The crome wheels site on the other hand has me confused as hell as to what I'm lookin for. But I also don't pretend to understand anything about tire and wheel sizes either.

All I want is some basic wheels that I can run the big rig tires on. They're cheaper and longer lasting by far then these LT tires we run on these trucks, not to mention the extra load capacity. On the Rickson site it looks like they are just runnin the normal truck tires on big rig wheels.

I'm so confused here.

 

how did this thread slip me........dude I run the rickson 19.5's

My honey needs me right now so I will get ya my points tomorrow eh hoser

 

Come on now, no pun intended there, get your priorities straight here. You know a website is a way better use of your time then any women. Come on now.

 

OK heres the deal...I have had these Ricksons 19.5 on now for 6 years and 80k miles...they will last another 50k before they need replaced so as far as longivity they are great.

the tire wheel combo weighes in at 172 lbs each so they are heavy duty big time....hell the rims are 3/8" thick

total heigth is 35.2" tall so ya hafta run a leveling kit or 2" lift to get full turning

they are 11ply and rated at 6400 lbs each..........about the same as you get from a duelly

they make a still ride.................an airbag suspension would be most excellent here

6th gear for me is only 1800 rpm at 75mph so this is good MPG

5th gear is 2100 rpm at 65mph.....excellent for towing big loads.

speedo correction device will be needed

safety on large loads is increased dramatically

brake wheel cylender from a chevy 1 ton helped me get some braking power back

I rotate tires every 10k

the core of these tires is 60 bucks trade in

I paid 2300 bucks total for tires and wheels new

overall econimics I think is better than regular tires

did I say 6400 lbs rated.............you need this with yer loads