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Choice of 15" wheels?

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Old 02-20-2011, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by SFBayArea
I am actually too thinking of going with aluminum wheels to save some weight. Which wheels do you run on your rig and where did you get them?
MB72s from Discount Tire Direct. They are on the board and provided great customer service. Cant say enough good things about them.
Old 02-20-2011, 01:44 PM
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check out the ballistic 814 jesters,,,,
not many have them
Old 02-20-2011, 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by karls10jk
I bought them off of a member here, but he got them from qtec....who doesn't carry them anymore :rolleyes: but 4wheelparts has some (I think) and I actually bought a spare tire from buywheelstoday.com. Look for the rebel racing sahara ones, 5x127. That's what my spare is and it fits fine.
I found Rebel Racing - Sahara - Matte Black on the buywheelstoday.com however, i can't find anywhere on their site if these wheels iron or aluminum?
http://www.buywheelstoday.com/produc...atte+Black.bwt
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i run 15" cragars. barely had to grind on mine at all. ill end up going to a bigger size when i upgrade the brakes tho

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Originally Posted by zfortna
MB72s from Discount Tire Direct. They are on the board and provided great customer service. Cant say enough good things about them.
Discount tires showing 7" widest MB Wheels on their site. Is that what you run? I am thinking of getting 35/12.5" BFG tires hence, I don't think 7" wide rim will do.
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Originally Posted by karls10jk
Yep, the matte black is the one I have as my spare tire and it is aluminum. I did a 15x8 to save on weight but IIRC they have 15x10s up there too that would work well for your 12.5s
Perfect, I think these are the best prices aluminum wheels I've seen to date. Thank you!
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Originally Posted by karls10jk
Yep, the matte black is the one I have as my spare tire and it is aluminum. I did a 15x8 to save on weight but IIRC they have 15x10s up there too that would work well for your 12.5s
So just to wrap it up, the wheels I will order to go along with my 2.5" TF lift (which requeires min of 4.5" of backspacing) Rebel Racing part numpber 772-5173. These are 15" diameter, 10" wide, with offset -43 (how does it converts to inches, is it really 4.3"?) and bolt pattern 5-127.
Doest that sounds right? Are these the same wheels you are running except yours ar 8" wide?
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Thank you karls10jk.
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Karl, I would deal with that tire not touching a rubber isolator asap. It will either ruin your hinges, crack the factory carrier, or pop the welds on your tailgate. All very bad scenarios.
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Daystar makes extended isolators that would help quite a bit since you want to run on the factory gate. Just something to look into.

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