The final tire diameter on most of these is only about 33 inches and that's all that counts for gearing. From stock size you will see some difference in torque but it's not significant. Stock tires IIRC are like 31 inches.

Personally I don't think it matters much. With no air they still sit upright and don't even look flat. Mine are marked with a max pressure of 115 I think and I keep them at about the 100psi mark.

 

We live out on a ranch and do a lot of hauling and am thinking about the 19.5 Ricksons and tires... Can I ask why you like the Toyos? How is the ride with the stiffer tires?

 

It's a difference of about 65 revolutions per mile. That sounds significant to me. It would slow down the final gearing but how much? Would it change the performance of the truck much at all?

 

Those are good looking tires. Any idea what they are worth?


Are you running balancing beads on yours?

 

I run these wheels on a farm truck that hauls heavy during hay season, up to around 30,000 on a load with 3:55 gears and a 5 speed tranny. I tend to max out the pulling power of this truck but these wheels made very little difference in this, I was maxing it out before they were mounted also.

There's gearing calculator's all over the net that will give you specific's on actual numbers, but seat of the pants feel was very little on pulling power lost and some of it was made up for, I'm sure with the improvement on rolling resistance with these tires compared to D and E rated tires.

These trucks already ride so stiff that I felt no difference in ride quality myself with these wheels.

 

I searched the net and found them for $230 per tire and then the old ones have a core refund on them so in the end it comes up to about $180 per tire, give or take a little for the going core rate at the time.

I don't have beads in the current ones but I bought them as a package already mounted and had weights. From here on out it will definitely be sort of beads though. If ya go to any sporting goods dept of a dept store they sell the overgrown rubber BB's. When ya mount the tire you just dump some of them in. Works the same way as the beads but won't clog the valve stem.

 

What are these overgrown rubber bbs for? if you go on the innovative balancing website you should be able to have an idea of how many ounces to add to those tires instead of guessing.

Ive been running beads for awhile - never had the problem your talking about.

 

We've been tinkerin with these in some jeeps and other off roaders and they work great. Just sounds funny in most gassers cause you can hear them rollin around when you stop and go but I don't think that's gonna be an issue in our trucks. http://www.hobbytron.com/Ukarms5000B...XBAGGREEN.html

The bags of beads work great and I'd use them in a heartbeat myself. Once in a while the bags break open though and in cold weather they coagulate in the valve stem when this happens. They recommend that you use the gas, Nitrogen I think to fill your tires when usin these beads.

And you know me, I can't do nothin the normal way. I'm always lookin for a better way.

 

I know a guy that is running the plastic airsoft bbs, to balance his tires, they are 35" muds. He got the dirrections on how much to use from an offroad site I believe, he printed of the article and showed it to me, it was directed at use in super swampers. He used 8 ounces, that was in January or Febuary that he put them on, and he said they have been working great. Just letting you know another option

 

the innovative website says not to use the balance beads in 19.5s on a 1ton. they say they won't work properly on the 19.5s on that size truck.