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Topic: How wide is to wide

Posted By: blazen orange
Subject: How wide is to wide
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2022 at 6:24pm

Putting a set of rims together for 18.4 38 tires and was hoping to some info on rim width for best results thanks

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Posted By: brad7066
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2022 at 10:12pm

what worked best for me was if its a 16.9 16 inches 18.4 18 inch rim. was told that on a deep tread radial you could go a inch wider. also it may differ if you are pulling in light weight classes.

Posted By: blazen orange
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2022 at 6:40am

The tires Firestone sat ll for a 8000 lbs class.

Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2022 at 6:57am

Last summer I was using a friends set of 18.4X38 tires mounted on 20" rims. In my opinion I though that was too wide. The rims I made for my own 18.4X38s turned out to be 17" and that seems to work well. I noticed that even with very high pressures the 20" rim allowed the tread to rise up in the middle of the dig outs at the end of the pull.

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